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Tuesday, April 23, 2002
By Paul Ford
An agent is a constructed entity that acts upon data or matter.
Specifically: a piece of code that finds you the best price on socks in emess, a glop of cells that constructs coral pillars below Roosevelt Displacement District (bio), a collection of small molecules that can shave diamond (nano).
Just about everything, anymore, is agents. Everywhere. “Dominant form of life on our planet,” says Dr. Geoff Harliquade.
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There is a Facebook group.
And six-words-only Twitter posts.
See also: Gary Benchley, Rock Star, a novel; Harper's Magazine; NPR's All Things Considered; The Morning News.
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© 1974-2007 Paul Ford
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