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                                Do What I Mean

> Here's what's going to happen: in a few months, you'll be able to build a
> blog, or more precisely, a dynamic web site, with content largely selected
> for you by a search robot that understands what you like, who you like, and
> where the stuff you like is found. You'll edit a selection of stories found
> and presented to you by your search robot, and you'll comment if you please
> on the stuff you decide to include in your own Daily Dish.
>

Via Microcontent News [1], Is Instapundit over? [2]

And in unrelated news, in a few months, you'll be able to specify the type of
program you want and have it programmed for you by computer, ready to go and
bug free.

Of course, researchers are undaunted by 40 years of setbacks in reaching a
self-programming computer. “We're very close,” said one researcher who asked
to remain unnamed due to concerns of a plot to kill his group by rogue
programmers looking to keep their jobs. When asked if said group of rogue
programmers have been keeping them from reaching success for the past 40
years, the researcher said no. “It's not that they've kept us from making
progress, but that we just can't quite get the computer to do what we mean …
”

In other news, another 40 year project [3] is nearing completion. “Another
six months,” said an anonymous programmer with the group, “and we'll finally
have a universal, democratic hypertext library that will blow the World Wide
Web away.”

[1] http://www.microcontentnews.com/entries/20020514-783.htm
[2] http://www.bennett.com/archives/000572.html#000572
[3] http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html

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