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Re:Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button by alex_martin on Thursday June 23, 2011 @04:58AM (#2687201)
A restaurant the runs like an Amazon warehouse? Where the staff are controlled by a little robotic handset.

"turn left and pick up credit card terminal. Then go to table 32." "say: 'how was your food today sir?'

Sounds fucking awful even if it does get you 10s faster service.

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Re:Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button by enko on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:06AM (#2687219)
You basically just described Manna: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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Re:Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button by henrikschroder on Thursday June 23, 2011 @07:08AM (#2687433)
Welcome to The Culture.. er.. I mean The Australia Project.
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Re:Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button by jacques_chester on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:05AM (#2687217)
I once read a poorly-written sci fi based on that exact premise. The system was called "Manna".
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Re:Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button by enko on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:10AM (#2687226)
Come on, it wasn't that badly written, and the ideas and insight more than made up for it. I'd definitely recommend it.
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Re:Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button by tomjen3 on Thursday June 23, 2011 @05:13AM (#2687230)
Agreed, it was pretty good.

Of course once I read it, I started to wonder if I could code mana.

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Re:Boeing right's a wrong: The flight attendant button by jacques_chester on Thursday June 23, 2011 @06:18AM (#2687344)
The author has already patented the idea.
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