ad-bots pitching services and wares to automated web-crawlers

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vinbreau 8 hours ago | link

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.

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arbitrage 8 hours ago | link

William Gibson could probably give you some ideas on what that says about us. He started writing about this fictionally decades ago.

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wernercolangelo 8 hours ago | link

Or Stanislaw Lem

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klipt 8 minutes ago | link

Or Douglas Adams in the Dirk Gently books.

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readerrrr 6 hours ago | link

Really? Could you share the titles.

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pessimizer 7 hours ago | link

Or Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth

http://ift.tt/1z4Mc7FSpaceMerchants

(Or Alvin Lucier: http://ift.tt/1qpZR2YAmSittingina_Room)

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pavel_lishin 7 hours ago | link

Charles Stross, too.

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aaronbrethorst 8 hours ago | link

Somewhat related: http://ift.tt/fisdS4

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twrkit 7 hours ago | link

reminds me of Google Will Eat Itself: http://www.gwei.org/

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