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Ten to fifty years is a long time to project into the future .... I think there will not be so much a replacement social media web site to Facebook as 1) fragme
by afrancis 11y ago
Ten to fifty years is a long time to project into the future .... I think there will not be so much a replacement social media web site to Facebook as 1) fragmentation of the social media space. 2) the waning of social media as the predominant focus of personal computing. I would go out on limb and say that software agents will be the next big thing. That is applications that know a lot about you and do things on your behalf without your direct intervention. Less interaction, not more. I think the proliferation of web APIs and big data, make software agents more viable.
- tuyguntn 11y agoI guess Zapier and IFTTT already started the way for software agents. If we call them Agent 1.0, how do you see Agent 2.0?
- afrancis 11y agoI don't know much about Zapier but IFTTT seems to me to be more like the infra-structure for software agents. IFTTT you are still creating recipes. I would like to say that Agent 2.0 would look like the Knowledge Navigator of the Apple videos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0). Many moons ago, I remember seeing this video in a graduate computer science course on CHI and freaking out. Now the question is what does Agent 1.0 look like?
- bbcbasic 11y agoWot! You mean we'll get bored of looking at screens all day and night?