info daemons

Some kind of virtual assistant that helps you with your information strategy.

• Fictional
  • Tom in Hyperland
  • The Librarian in Snow Crash
  • Jane in Speaker for the Dead
• Real
  • Clippy(!)
    • Clippy might have sucked, but it's not a good counter argument to the idea of virtual assistants. (If a bridge collapses, do we say bridges are a terrible idea?)
• Things that need more work
  • Huginn
  • Node-Red (https://nodered.org/)
  • geists
  • Dual https://paulbricman.com/thoughtware/dual

Why do we need virtual assistants? How about we just work together and collaborate on things with other humans? Maybe a virtual assistant does the drudge that you wouldn't want to ask another person to do.