With the rise of personal AI assistants, the internet isn't just for humans anymore
In 2001, a decade after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee articulated a new vision. Together with two colleagues, he published an article in the magazine Scientific American in which he outlined what he called the "Semantic Web" : an internet designed to be navigated by autonomous software agents that could address our every need, without requiring us to muck about with browsers and search engines ourselves
To illustrate what this might look like, Berners-Lee and his colleagues told a story about a pair of siblings who use their agents to automatically research and book physical therapy appointments for their mother, making sure they would be covered by insurance and fit their busy calendars