Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Further Reading: Gods Tomorrow

Hunch initially struck me as something very similar to the database services in Gods Tomorrow, but as I read more, I'm not so sure.

It's essentially a search engine (or maybe something more like Yahoo! Answers), where you ask a question specific to you (like "Who should I vote for?") and it asks you a series of related, more concrete questions that should be easy for you to answer, then proposes a customized answer to your general question.

That's essentially what I assume the database services are doing constantly, only instead of asking you questions, they would be crawling through your recorded history finding the answers from your past actions and decisions.

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