Thursday, April 3, 2014

if we have a personal assistant

A personal Assistant who can take care of un-attended things on behalf of us, remind us the niche things / persons / pics which we almost forgot but a refreshing thought of them will give a smile on our face or a hope for starting fresh.

I believe each of us need a dedicated personal assistant, who understands us and our echo system, and only works for us, to start with he/she need not be super intelligent and suggest if I perform this action now, how it affects rest of the world, he should be intelligent enough to suggest if I do not perform a specific activity what i'll loose/not achieve.

A personal assistant can also be our own mind which when trained with care and discipline serves the best. But still when in need a caring experienced thought cannot match anything else, they are blessed who have such companions or build such companions in their life time.

It looks fascinating seeing the Iron Man movie about how his computer assists him in his research.

Why not we have an assistant in virtual world which we are building every day, in a computer. By looking at the miscellaneous activities (to state few as below) I appreciate a personal assistant application which understands my pattern of work and get things handy, yet make it strictly personal.

Activities like,

  1. When I get a document / movie from a friend or colleague,   I generally put it on desktop, how good it will be if my computer understands and places it appropriate movie / documents folder for me.
  2. For a small floating point calculation I feel bored to open a calculator, to exactly see how what the sum is.
  3. How good it will be if i re-arrange items on my text pad/ emacs that reflects the folder structure / presence of the items on my disk.
  4. When i'm bored and do not understand what to do next, how about computer presents me my top priorities, and project the sequence and possible outcomes based on my action sequence.
    1. Though i might have trained it earlier about them, it feels good when ideas float back when I'm not in mood to think.
    2. It would feel like a freebee or payback of earlier discipline but could give a different experience as we are getting self suggestions, which motivated us earlier.
  5. Want to revive my thoughts, but feels lazy to remind myself what to look at.
  6. Though this is more fancy, but will definitely appreciate if my assistant mines the web and gets some help or material for the task which stays pending for a long time.