Depersonified Personal Agents: [ A Challenge to Web Design and the Project (ISEA96 Proceedings)]
In this speech I want to talk a little about my current perspective
regarding the development of the Internet- a theme that a
great number of people are constantly dedicating themselves
to these days. Specifically, however, I want to talk about changes
that are occurring right now, not changes that happen
overnight, but rather shifts that will take some time to fully
become apparent. These changes are caused by both technological
as well as SOCIO- economic developments. They are, in
one way or another, portrayed by the media and by common
perception as answers to the so- called ?Information overload?
the Internet IS facing today. I want to question this assumption
a little, but more importantly, I want to point out how the combined
Impact of these changes IS of special relevance to the
World- Wide- Web designer, a field my partner Markus
Weisbeck and I have been heavily involved in in the past year
and a half.