Pyxis Cyberea
On the personal end of the coming news continuum, most individuals will possess some kind of “news assistant” or “agent,” a computer-generated servant dedicated to the task of scouring the reaches of cyberspace for information of interest … To answer the newsgathering patterns of these assistants, we might see the creation or evolution of multimedia databases/wire services, charging the owner of an agent for the amount of stories (or even bits) downloaded … In the same way that USA Today and other national papers specialize various editions for certain sections of the country, these media enterprises would allow a customer (or a customer’s agent) to create a personal newspaper from a wealth of stories.