back on target, please!
anyway, i once heard of this assistant program thing that analyzed your behaviors, etc, and, when prompted with calendar events or other stimuli, would try and predict
your most probable course of action. if your mom's birthday showed up on the calendar, it would have some flowers on reserve. if someone else wants to reschedule a golf game to another day and you happen to be free, then it does it for you, etc.
i can see that happening in a couple years. everyone having a "digital copy" of themselves on the internet, and these digital copies will coordinate with eachother, planning our schedules for us so that nothing conflicts, alerting us if anything changes.
and once we get wireless broadband, all you would need to access this digital persona of yours would be a cell phone. enter an appointment, it goes to the digital assistant. if someone else decides to reschedule and you're free, it notifies you via SMS of the change. alarms go off on your phone before the event, depending on how long it thinks it'll take you to get there from wherever you are (these ubermodern phones have gps too
)
i dunno, it sounds like a good idea =D