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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by nostrademons on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:17PM (#9742173)
The step after that is to create artificial humans that surf the web just like real ones, build up marketing profiles just like real ones, "view" ads just like real ones - but aren't actually people. And then computers can market things to other computers. We might even get a shadow economy where it's computers all the way down, sorta like how 75% of Twitter traffic is (used to be?) bots.

Skynet, here we come.

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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by rokhayakebe on Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:31PM (#9742409)
And then computers can market things to other computers.

+2

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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by MaysonL on Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:47PM (#9742468)
Charlie Stross already wrote that: Accelerando.
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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by greenyoda on Friday June 19, 2015 @08:24PM (#9748436)
I looked up the summary on Wikipedia[1]. It sounds like an interesting read. It was released under a Creative Commons license, so it can be read online for free.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando_%28novel%29

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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by toomuchtodo on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:23AM (#9752539)
Read it recently, excellent book. Take the time if you have it.
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Re:Sourcepoint: Former Googler Will Sell Tech to Punch Throu... by partiallypro on Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:59PM (#9742511)
Who says that's not already happening, in the fraudulent sense? I would be a huge swath of traffic that gets reported is fake, same for ad clicks.
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