h a l f b a k e r yWhy not imagine it in a way that works?
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Because your glasses have a barcode scanner in them, they
scan
and purchase every thing you look at that you approve of.
You press a button to purchase and they make a sound. You put
the item
straight into a carrier bag.
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Changed to from a smile to a button |
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// they scan and purchase every thing you look at that you approve of. // |
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Does that include Suzi, the slim, dark-haired young woman who works behind the Deli counter ? (Asking for a friend) |
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Yep, this sort of exists already over here (I'm guessing you're
over there, [chrono]. You grab a scanner as you walk into the
shop, and scan things with it as you add them to your trolley.
Then you just pay according to the scanner's total when you
leave. |
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It's not glasses-mounted, admittedly. |
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// they scan and purchase every thing you look at
that you approve of. //
Does that include Suzi, the slim, dark-haired young
woman who works behing the Deli
counter ? |
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I had a similar deviant thought to 8th of 7, I was
more concerned my browsing of the local
porn shop would need to be curtailed, dark glasses
are essential in there. I would need to take
a second job to cover all the things I 'approve of'. |
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Photo of Suzi please, or a reasonable rendition
from the illustrators imagination would be
fine! |
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Think Jadzia Dax, but a little taller and slimmer, with a dazzling smile. |
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Sooner or later, supermarkets will work out that they can
make money just by charging every shopper a flat rate per
visit. The money they'd save on barcoding, checkouts and
cash-handling would make up for the odd customer who took
only langoustine and foie. |
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Actually I'd do that, so maybe it's a bad idea. |
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This is a good point [MB]. Who would have guessed 20 years ago that telephone bills would be flat rate and unmetered? |
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The Orange network in the UK was considering exactly that in 2001-2. |
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They also anticipated the "death" of landlines for voice traffic, at least in the personal market, and the replacement of coporate sitewide PABXs by cellular WAN virtual exchanges. |
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Some of the more outré concepts, predicated on massive technological "jumps" and thought to be 40 to 5O years ahead, now look likely to be rolled out as technology demonstrators in the next 3 - 5 years. |
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Your life as you have known it is over. Resistance is Futile. |
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Well, where there's a will there's a Huawei. |
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//considering exactly that in 2001-2// So, 18-19 years ago, but not 20? |
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That was when the document was circulated internally; the group that produced it had been in existence since at least 1998, concurrent with the release of the preliminary standards for HSCSD. |
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