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Presentation, December 9, 1999
by Richard Gatarski for

Vision och Verklighet

There are things developing beyond TVs with set top boxes...

In the future we will likely see more than Digital Television. It holds promises of intelligent appliances, wireless communication pads, personal digital assistants, multimedia cars, communicating toys, etc.
NCR Microwave oven communicator
WebMan from Anigma
WebPad from Cyrix
Advantage 2000 from CMI and Salton
Rocket eBook
Everybook
CrossPad from Cross
OnStar from GM
Actimates Barney from Microsoft.
Furby from Tiger Electronics
Cyberpen, used by ISO in Denmark

Artificial Market Actors

Nicholas Negroponte, MIT media lab

"most people have a hard time understanding that the viewership of broadcast will be largely machines in the future, not people."

See also Media face Artificial Consumers, and marketing theory must re-think publiserad i Journal of Marketing Communications.

A few examples

• Excite Product Finder (crippled Jango)
• Linjeväljaren from Optimal Telecom.
• Olga from Centre for Speech Technology, KTH, Stockholm
• MarketMaker (former Kasbah) from MIT media lab
• Shallow Red from Neuromedia
  enter "microsoft agent" as your first question
• Toyspot demo from Netsage
• Generative desing from Emergent Design

See BotSpot for more examples of bots.