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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Agent S, I presume?



Increasingly, I am convinced of the inevitability and necessity of personality-attuned neurologically-interfaced semi-autonomous hierarchical software agents (PANISAHSA's?). An exo-cortex. I am a surfer on the crest of a techno-informatic wave, constantly on the verge of 'wiping out', and despite my skills, training, innate intelligence and constant effort to maintain my position, I have no guarantee of remaining current, wired, up-to-date. If you fall behind, you've fallen off, there's no catching up. So what I need, what would save me from obsoletion, is a system of information retreival and processing complex and powerful enough to handle the wired and well-connected world.

Santa, I wanna exo-cortex!

13 comments:

Chris said...

Like the waves a real surfer faces, the information surfer doesn't need to maintain the same wave - to attempt to do so is to tilt at windmills. Rather, you just need to make sure that when you wipe out, you catch the next wave when it comes along. ;)

Lots of posts - guess you're at a loose end! :)

Unknown said...

Almost a viable analogy, I think. You can stay on one wave, but it brings you down an inlet from which there is no return - specialisation. However, the information surfer operates on many more dimensions than the sea surfer. So analogy-wise, wiping out and looking back to the next wave doesn't necessarily hold, because if you wipe out you may not be able to any of the waves any more.

I'm republishing the whole blog with updated links and edits. Didn't think they were all going out on RSS. If there's old ones you haven't seen, enjoy! :)

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