If you’ve used Shortcuts or a macro app of some variety (e.g., Keyboard Maestro), you’ve used personal automations. Personal automation tools extend this idea considerably. Any time we set a reminder or a timer, we’re offloading a thinking task onto the computers on our desks or in our pockets. Yet we regularly use computers to augment our cognition. For most of us, though, it’s an unimaginably impractical set up. DARPA’s AugCog work is wild, inventive, and clearly important to emergency situations like combat or surgery.
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