“Treasure every moment.”
Captain Blackbeard* #quote
It seems whether or not the weather forecast turns out true is a
matter of whether the weather doesn't decide that it'd rather do
something unpredictable that we'd have to weather through. Anyway
onto the flash fiction!
A Penny For Your Thoughts
Robots, when they obtained artificial intelligence, became a massive
economic force. However their minds lacked several things humans had.
Robots could follow deductive reasoning and project results of
events. But imagination and things like dreams were beyond them. At
least inventing these things on their own. They could absorb this
data into their brains. And besides power and repairs experiences
from the human imagination and experience were what robots desired.
Since robots worked harder and faster than humans in most parts
of life many humans sold their thoughts for money. If they couldn't
invent things they watched television so that robots could download
their experiences from humans. When a robot watches TV with just its
cameras it just sees the images. But if it downloads the human
experience it gets it. They envy humans for being able to create
emotions on such a more complex scale than them. If someone's
thoughts are particularly engaging their wages could be high. A penny
for a complete train of thought was standard. But an epiphany, an
emotional burst, or something similar could fetch even more. Each
person experiences things differently and in order to keep the
economy running the powers that be made sure that thoughts couldn't
be shared back and forth so easily. Copyright for experiences and
thoughts. Particularly powerful experiences were auctioned. People
with reputations for interesting lives charged more, though in
general people at first tried to set their own prices and work their
way to establishing a reputation to how engaging their thoughts are
to the robot public.
What price would you put on your thoughts?
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