Knowing who everyone else is

If we now consider a people space, where there might be hundreds of meeting places. The idea of everyone having a bio posted up on a Web site for everyone else to view isn't very practical. It would require organising. Some people wouldn't be bothered to describe themselves. In any case, it would be a daunting task to read through everybody's bio every time you entered a meeting place, to find out what kind of people were there and who would be interesting to communicate with.

What would be convenient though, would be to be able to send some kind of intelligent agent into a meeting place: to find out about everyone there and then report back to you with a list of who might be of particular interest.

Such a possibility might seem to be in the realms of science fiction, but, it is perfectly feasible in the world of bots and personal electronic agents.