domesticated om
01-05-08, 05:48 AM
This gives me an idea for an amusing short story. It would be about a society with robot customers tailor made to patronize robot salespeople.
Perhaps the reason for this is because future society has access to so many different choices for "things to buy" that they are unable to decide for themselves.
..........or maybe an element of this society is the advancement of "corporate control" or commercialization to the point where even the buying process itself becomes industrialized. Buying things is "designed" to be ever increasingly faster and more efficient.
-at any rate, the whole consuming process becomes a big macro.
The sales-bot would throw the "pitch" subroutine", and the consumer-bot would run an "evaluate/purchase" routine. There would also be an odd parallel to todays consumer buying something with references to "sales within a tolerance".
Perhaps there is another element of competitiveness between corporations/small businesses of the future. Larger entities have huge factories filled with the most high tech sales & purchase bots (someone inevitably has the monopoly). Smaller companies and upstarts would have their own successes/failures in varying degrees.
Maybe the protagonist is someone trying to disrupt the system by using illegal "spam-bots" who are somehow able to make the consumer-bots buy things they aren't programmed to buy.
Perhaps the reason for this is because future society has access to so many different choices for "things to buy" that they are unable to decide for themselves.
..........or maybe an element of this society is the advancement of "corporate control" or commercialization to the point where even the buying process itself becomes industrialized. Buying things is "designed" to be ever increasingly faster and more efficient.
-at any rate, the whole consuming process becomes a big macro.
The sales-bot would throw the "pitch" subroutine", and the consumer-bot would run an "evaluate/purchase" routine. There would also be an odd parallel to todays consumer buying something with references to "sales within a tolerance".
Perhaps there is another element of competitiveness between corporations/small businesses of the future. Larger entities have huge factories filled with the most high tech sales & purchase bots (someone inevitably has the monopoly). Smaller companies and upstarts would have their own successes/failures in varying degrees.
Maybe the protagonist is someone trying to disrupt the system by using illegal "spam-bots" who are somehow able to make the consumer-bots buy things they aren't programmed to buy.