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"Intelligent, and frequently autonomous and mobile, computer code known as agents represent the next great wave of innovation and development across the Infosphere comprised of the Internet, Intranets, World Wide Web, and countless other networked computer systems. This arena has increasingly become very active, rapidly evolving, and expanding in scope and importance. An increasing number of very diverse agents are being independently produced, or research undertaken, by an array of companies, universities, and other institutions. Individual professionals are specializing in the domain. Public events are being held. Standards activities are being undertaken. Strategic studies and reports are being prepared. This technology arena is expected to eventually have an effect as profound as the World Wide Web, probably even more so. It can include simple assisted applications on a single computer or simple robot like scripts. Ultimately, however, it enables not only massive true distributed network computing, but also persistent, autonomous, cooperative and other forms independent, intelligent activity by mobile code operating on large numbers of networked machines. In the Internet, and many Intranets, for example, these can involve many diverse computer hosts and an infinite array of different applications. Massively parallel supercomputing pioneer, Danny Hillis - founder of Thinking Machines Corp, and now Disney Imagineering R&D head - opined at a Sept 1996 Wall Street Journal business conference that: "If agents become a reality - that will change reality. Organizations, perceptions of self, interactivity ...it will all change." Agent technologies and applications also invoke significant national and economic security concerns. On the positive side, the technologies will facilitate and enhance entrepreneurial activities such as business transactions, rapid access to information, complex information pattern recognition, shared profiling of common activities, distributed systems management, and perhaps even facilitate copyright payments. On the negative side, species of the same technology have the potential for significant inadvertent as well as criminal abuse, extending ultimately to "information warfare" and countermeasures. " This is taken from the "Agent Society" Background. This group is establishing standards which could be very important. General Magic is a founder of this technology which lead me to uncovering this group. For more information, see link agent.org Any comment on the viability of this technology would be welcomed. Regards, Mark oliver | ||||||||||||
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