Digital Personal Assistant

We are taking information for granted these days. Its so bad that for some of us, there it seems to be a huge burden just to sift through emails in our Inbox to sift through the useful and the time wasters. There are tons and tons of information and data available but how can we categorize them effectively so that only the useful will be fed into our brains? Not all of us are fortunate enough to have a personal assistant to do it for us.

Perhaps the answer lies in a modified search engine technology that sifts through all our emails, social networking content, electronic magazines and even the web so that only relevant information to us is filtered through. The system can be a filtering mechanism where information can be divided into Urgent, Normal and Trash. We read through all content under Urgent, go through when we have time for Normal and finally trash the Trash.

The main challenge will be to create a system that understands our priority in life. The priority could be in social life, family circle, work environment and even trivial things like a bowling group that meets up every week. The system can channel to us the right type of information at the right time, all the while filtering the vast amount of information in the digital space. It would be great to have such a system in place and the only downside I see if this becomes a reality is, we may end up being robots!