Take a look into the future, which with the rapid advancement of technology is more imminent than further away!
Do you ever feel like you should be dodging and weaving because you know that all around you little information packets are rapidly hurrying to their inevitable destination? It's quite amazing when you think about it.
Now envision a world of the future, when you want to "buy" something in the virtual corporation (because of course bricks and mortar won't exist anymore).
You make a statement to the effect of "Buyer" (or perhaps in the future, just thinking about it will be enough) and from you computer pops a holographic "buyer". You can program what you want this image to look like -- mine personally would be the mirror image of Mel Gibson.
This "buyer" asks you what you are looking to buy. After you make your request, Mel dives back into the portals of the web (somewhat like in the movie Tron), and within seconds comes back with three alternatives. (Mel has also made sure that you have the spending authority and if not, has already assured the approvals).
You can view the image of this product in 3D, right in front of you, and this multi-talented buyer would be spouting off the full scope analysis and providing you with the best alternative from an initial total cost perspective.
You make an interim decision although you are not quite convinced that Mel has "negotiated" the best "deal". So you request that the other party's negotiator meets with you to hash out the details. So out pops a holographic image of Mr. T (your supplier has a real sense of humor).
Within minutes you get to end state and your product is on its way -- within minutes of your first determining a need.
Of course the problem is that with a wonderful holographic image, you may decide that you are going to buy more often, just to get a glimpse of your hologram.
So there is a trigger built into the system that after so many "buyer" requests, Barney the Dinosaur shows up singing"You've bought too much
It's time to stop
It's time to stop
Or the boss will come
and you will be chopped...."
and you will be chopped...."
Yes, it will be a bright new world out there.....any other ideas?
2 comments:
Maybe you need to put a little more thought into this glorious vision of the future...
Think spam. Think spyware. Think worms. Think virii. Think rootkits.
Maybe Mel wouldn't be working for you at all but secretly he'd be working for Bill Gates and his descendants. Then Bill would get to say what you want and need, instead of you.
Sort of like - well - sort of like with computers today!
Maybe Mr. T. might 'misunderstand on purpose' and send you 30,000 widgets instead of the 30 you actually need - or maybe Mr. T. might decide you need 30 widgets every month for the rest of your life and beyond that, well into death, like many ISPs and other greedy Corporations.
That happens a lot today, too. IBM did it to me when I tried to cancel their ISP service. No matter how often I called and complained, they simply refused to stop charging my credit card every month until I sent them a registered letter of cancellation.
It's an interesting concept but also really, really frightening. Much thought would have to go into this particular vision of the near future.
I guess, so long as it is Barney arbitrating the deal, you can't go too far wrong.
Hmmmmm, Barney? I wonder what you're watching on TV these days?
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