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Intelligent Agent Technology: Open Sesame! (1993)

After years of unsuccessful attempts to find the name of a long-forgotten app through Google, I tried pasting my query into Gemini:

After years of unsuccessful attempts to find the name of a long-forgotten app through Google, I tried pasting my query into Gemini: “Back in my teens I saw a software demo for a Mac/Windows app that tracked what you were doing and offered to complete repetitive tasks for you. Although the demo failed—the Macintosh was supposed to prompt the user to continue renaming a series of files in sequence—the concept left a lasting impression on me.

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