I need a mini-me! I want someone to handle the conferences, the weekly status reports, the meetings, the marketing reports, the sales sheets, the feasibilities, the milestone payment authorizations, the decisions on tag-lines and titles, the backmatter, the free copies mailout, the gentle author pings, and the scheduling, so I can just bloody edit!
--Nat
Check out Eon and Eternity by Greg Bear, and Diaspora by Greg Egan. The conciousnesses in them can split off autonomous subunits ("partials" in the Bear books) that handle tasks and report back.
Also David Brin has a new book out (that I haven't read yet) that just came out, Kiln People , that deals with a world where people can create golems to handle the mundane tasks.
Re:Not a solution, but interesting reading.
belg4mit on 2002-02-28T22:30:00
This concept is also used in Rudy Rucker's Realware.
For years I had a
If I didn't spend so much time writing status reports, my status report might just become a progress report.
Huh. Who's gonna spend time with your kids?
