Less Is More: Interface Agents as Digital Butlers
Most people generally make a false assumption that more bits are better. More is more. In truth, we want fewer bits, not more … Just because bandwidth exists, don’t squirt more bits at me. What I really need is intelligence in the network and in my receiver to filter and extract relevant information from a body of information that is orders of magnitude larger than anything I can digest. To achieve this we use a technique known as “interface agents.” Imagine a future where your interface agent can read every newspaper and catch every broadcast on the planet, and then, from this, construct a personalized summary. Wouldn’t that be more interesting than pumping more and more bits into your home?