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![]() The interests profile is the only way to deal with the profusion of goods and services in a worldwide networked economy.
This is a remarkable prediction from Pohl; the interests profile along with the networked software applications that use it corresponds very closely to what were called autonomous "intelligent agents" in the 1990's.
Knowledge engineering Professor Nikola Kasabov provides the following description of an autonomous intelligent agent's feature set:
This also anticipates the Personal Interest Profile that Arthur C. Clarke mentions in his Fountains of Paradise about a decade later. See also the the personalized news from Ralph 124c 41 + (1911), by Hugo Gernsback, which had the idea of a newspaper printed based on general subscriber interests. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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