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My dystopian view of the future is one where bots will show up in your Messenger conversation and offer you deals "Hey I heard you guys were hungry, here's $2 off your next Chipotle order!" and people won't mind as long as their getting a deal.

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In dystopian future they wont get $2 off but restaurant they go to increases price just for them.

I'm actually pretty surprised restaurants haven't tried a surge pricing model yet.

They have, it's called the lunch special, it just usually surges the opposite direction so that the restaurant becomes full during lunch times.

Yep. Or happy hour, or kids eat free on Tuesdays.

Sounds like something out of Daemon.

In my dystopian view you actually talk, but only to one bot. 99% of your time. He or she is the most amazing, knowledgable, kind, funny and friendly person you know. Your best friend ever. All other communication (with bots of other people and companies, most likely) is going through this one person.

Your only choice is wether this friend is controlled by Google, Apple, Facebook or Amazon.

Have you seen the movie Her? It's a nice exploration of this idea.

You've met my ex?

What a nice fantasy you have that we could have some time left without that. Too late though. It's ALREADY HERE.

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/16/322597862/how-retailers-use-sm...

This already happens. The bots aren't inline as chat messages, but they're contextually aware ads like 'get an uber!'

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