Easy, Scott- for our virtual assistant we just buy HAL on eBay. Nothing could possibly go wrong then…

We at one point discussed the idea of putting a genius bar with knowledgeable people in Meyer Library.
Another, slightly more advanced way of doing that would be with a human video guide (I’m sure these have been done in museums, etc.) The idea is to have a trio of plasma screens (or one plasma […]

In case we needed to know what geeks thought about a smart calendar automatically filling people’s schedules, here’s a slashdot discussion on the New Scientist article mentioned earlier. Most people think they’re smart enough to make their own decisions. Fortunately, I know I’m not.

Gordon Bell at Microsoft research: digitizing everything he’s ever seen and read, and then figuring out good ways to put it to use.
Someday, life will be quite different.

From (http://www.faithpopcorn.com/trends/trends.htm).
A Yankelovich survey shows that customers trust friends above experts when it comes to product recommendations (65% trust friends, 27% trust experts, 8% trust celebrities).

I emailed Bruno Vernier, a fellow who I heard speak four years ago. Then he was predicting that markuplanguages and open source would be the big deals, before I had any real cluewhat markup languages and open source were. I thought I’d drop him an emailand he came back to me with this lengthy and […]

Well the web site is back alive again. Must’ve been some SSE Tech Group related glitch.

“How many monkey butlers will there be?” “Only one, but he’ll train others.”-The Simpsons
Looks like those crazy Brits are trying to beat us at our own game: Phone butler organises your life . Time for a hostile takeover…or a partnership (KD: and a trip to the UK!).

For reasons I don’t really understand, isis.stanford.edu is now down. I guess we have to find a new place to host it. Anyone have ideas?