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I envision a future where a significant share of the advertising market is comprised of automated ad-bots pitching services and wares to automated web-crawlers.
by vinbreau 12y ago
I envision a future where a significant share of the advertising market is comprised of automated ad-bots pitching services and wares to automated web-crawlers. There's something obtusely philosophical about that and what it says about us, though I am not sure what that is.
- arbitrage 12y agoWilliam Gibson could probably give you some ideas on what that says about us. He started writing about this fictionally decades ago.
- wernercolangelo 12y agoOr Stanislaw Lem
- pavel_lishin 12y agoCharles Stross, too.
- pessimizer 12y agoOr Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants (Or Alvin Lucier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room)
- jacquesm 12y ago> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants That's one of the best SF books ever.
- aaronbrethorst 12y agoSomewhat related: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
- twrkit 12y agoreminds me of Google Will Eat Itself: http://www.gwei.org/ http://www.gwei.org/
- LeonD 12y agoThat is already happening to an extent, except the wares being promoted are the ads themselves and they're being sold in sub-second auctions where the bidders are different algorithms operating on behalf of various companies.