Siebel predicted that Agent technology, created using Java, ActiveX, or other languages, will become more complex and powerful as homes and businesses gain more computing power and higher-bandwidth connections to the Internet. We see incredible advances over the next 10 to 12 months. Smart Rooms Smart Rooms act like invisible butlers. Thet have cameras, microphones, and other sensors, and use these inputs to try to interpret what people are doing in order to help them. The Smart Room can provide an unencumbered user-interface to a virtual environment.
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Search and Navigation sites. Analysts and investors swear that search engines and bots are once again poised to achieve spectacular successes. Ltd. This review surveyed the diverse literature on agent technology, and more specifically within the three research areas of Intelligent User Interfaces, Distributed Agent Technology and Mobile Agent Technology. An Overview by Hyacinth S. Nwana largely reviews software agents and also contains some strong opinions that are not necessarily widely accepted by the agent community. This paper by Dirk Wagner bridges Economics and Computer Science in order to provide fresh but long established insights into the question of social order for machines.