Friend-seekers

Take an army of the recently-described feral hunting robots . To each robot, add a GPS chip and wireless mesh networking .

Give the people and dogs smart name tags , and have your dogs exchange your "business card" with the other smart name tags. Publish the FOAF url in it, so you can immediately check for compatibility and give the new information to the dogs.

Study the discovered FOAF files , each describing individual traits ("attributes").

Instruct the feral robots to find other people with compatible personalities , but to stay near you. They'll roam around, seeking people whose interests relate to yours.

For bonus points, add solar panels to generate power as it roams around, and electronic boundaries to keep it in safe areas, away from motor traffic.

Schuyler suggests that this is a little like the bionic guard dogs in Snow Crash. Awesome.

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Comments

[LanRover]

it would be fun to spike the tendancies with random elements. i.e. for the post-beatnick intellectuals that sit around in sweaters sipping tea.. throw in a kid-rock lovin pro-wrestling fan..
so as to not create homogenous groups that sit and intellectually inbreed.