martin
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 Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject: Agents Unleashed
 Wayner, AP Professional, 1995
Amazing thing is, he describes agents, as were fashionable back then, using the wrong examples. What everyone did back then was imagine roving agents doing your shopping on the net, haggling over prices, coming back with the goods. It's still very unclear to me what "coming back" means in a permanently connected world. And why in the world it would be an advantage. But, replace the purchase bots with medical records, and you've got something here. Medical records are really "out there" on their own and may stay dormant for many years on obscure media. If these records took an active part in their own propagation and survival, it would be very meaningful. The examples are written for XLisp (a kind of Lisp interpreter), and the whole is pretty readable. There's also a floppy included, if you're that kind of person.
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