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One more piece of 'revolutionary technology' whose main goal seems to be to sell me things or make me spend my money in other ways.
by abruzzi 15y ago
One more piece of 'revolutionary technology' whose main goal seems to be to sell me things or make me spend my money in other ways.
- billybob 15y agoThis would be nice if it let me find the spaghetti noodles more quickly in an unfamiliar grocery store. But somehow I doubt the store is going to install a bunch of tech to help me shop more quickly. If they wanted to do that, they could just all put stuff in the same place.
- jedahan 15y agoCheck out what the MONA has done in conjunction with Art Processors http://mona.net.au/theo/ http://mona.net.au/theo/ to completely get rid of tombstones inside a museum. Harder to do here at the Met, but there are most definitely applications that aren't about spending more money.
- baddox 15y agoWhen did commerce become a bad thing?
- abruzzi 15y agoCommerce isn't a bad thing, but exciting new technology to try to separate me from my money faster may be a cool thing for Google, but not for me--the consumer. Maybe I'm weird, but I already know what I want to buy, I don't need technology to try (and usually fail) to generate some new consumption desire.
- skore 15y agoBe honest though - it's not like companies like to develop technology that has no commercial value. Whether or not it's used in that way is a different question, but if it's a big company developing something, you bet it went through twenty levels of market research to make sure there is a buck to make at the other end. It's still your choice what you do with it once the technology gets to you. I find it far more fruitful to look at what people do with the technology and how they end up screwing themselves with it. And by fruitful I mean frustrating.
- mcguire 15y agoNo, no, it's to target advertising to you.