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.
That 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.
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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. There's something obtusely philosophical about that and what it says about us, though I am not sure what that is.
William Gibson could probably give you some ideas on what that says about us. He started writing about this fictionally decades ago.
Or Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
(Or Alvin Lucier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room)
That's one of the best SF books ever.
Or Stanislaw Lem
Or Douglas Adams in the Dirk Gently books.
Really? Could you share the titles.
I'd say start with The Cyberiad. It's fun and approachable.
Charles Stross, too.
That 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.
Somewhat related: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
reminds me of Google Will Eat Itself: http://www.gwei.org/