The concept of the PA in the real world is a simple one – someone who knows you, knows your routine. It’s actually the knowing you that is the important part, knowing how you work, what you like, what order you like to do things in.
One of the key things is that you might give some instruction on those things to your PA, but a key element is that they should be able to learn about you by themselves, spot preferences you might not even know you had or that never crossed your mind to express.
I am still amazed computers, and in particular mobile devices, are not up to speed on this yet. I still have to go into a preferences setting and explicitly tell my device or my software what I want it to do.
It sees EVERYTHING I do, so it has all the information it needs to spot my habits and adjust itself accordingly. Yet for all the new computing power we have, computers are still as dumb as ever when it comes to adapting themselves automatically to the needs of their users.
It’s about time that changed!
