E-business, a brave new world beyond PCs

business art technology

E-business
a brave new world
beyond PCs

Presentation, August 25, 2000
by Richard Gatarski for

Imaginary Organizations

This is only the Internet part of my lecture. I will make no efforts to keep this page updated. The Internet is in constant flux. Links that this document refers to might have moved, changed or vanished. Still I hope that you will find it useful.

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	Introduction and overview Presentation outline: Post PC Artificial Market Actors Conclusions The presenter Richard Gatarski is currently finalizing his PhD dissertation at the School of Business, Stockholm University. More about him at his commercial and scientific sites.
	This is the real future
	Post PC Why do we have (personal) computers?
	and why do they look like they do?
	The computer are in our homes...including the kitchen!
	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 WebPad from Cyrix Advantage 2000 from CMI and Salton OnStar from GM Actimates Barney from Microsoft. Furby from Tiger Electronics Cyberpen, used by ISO in Denmark Kerbango netradio Itsy platform from Compaq MP3-player, from Ijamworld or the swedish distributorActor (the original Merit MP-100)

	As I see it, right now the (IT) industry is moving away from Internet towards isolated networks. One healty opposite force is sourced by Open-IP.
	Artificial Market Actors We (humans) are not alone anymore...
	A few examples Excite Product Finder (crippled Jango) Smartsurfer PhoneGenie from MediaCom 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) Generative desing from Emergent Design See BotSpot for more examples of bots.
	Look, the market contains non-humans, i.e. artificial market actors
	Machines more human than humans? Sometimes humans don´t understand they are dealing with a computer.
	Remember the ATM-story, nobody wanted them and now no one wants to be without them.
	Conclusions
	Thank you Featuring Sun Light Chorus.