“Treasure every moment.”
Captain Blackbeard* #quote
Hope all of you who went shopping on Black Friday survived with
minimal line lag. (The name I devised for the jet lag like sensation
experience created by waiting in line for absurd amounts of time.)
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 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 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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