Bye-Bye Agents? Not

Is Carl Hewitt a good prophet in predicting a "Perfect Disruption: Causing the Paradigm Shift from Mental Agents to ORGs?" The author states that the agents paradigm isn\´t a crisis yet and could play a more aggressive role not only in AI but in several sciences. He disagree that organizations of restricted generality (ORGs) are really an alternative to agents because they conceptually and computationally presuppose agents. In this paper, the author propose that the agent community should create a new initiative to define the various forms of agent technologies. It should be as inclusive as possible, but unless some technologies are excluded, nothing will have been defined. There should be a broad definition that represents the technologies that are included, and it should have some scientific value. People don\´t want to be in the business of defining "planet" or "agent." People do have to be in the business of better defining what it is we do, how it\´s different, and showing that it matters. Unless we do a better job of defining our scientific contributions, agents will unfortunately continue to be sidelined as a legitimate scientific endeavor and community.