What is the difference between a supermarket trolley and a non-executive director? The supermarket trolley has a mind of its own but a non-executive director can hold more food and drink.
"An abandoned shopping trolley rolled towards him menacingly for perhaps a foot, but then thought better of it, creaking to a sudden standstill."
-Alan Moore, Jerusalem (London, 2016), p. 211.
Sf story idea: shopping trolleys are mobile AIs and some have escaped into the undergrowth like wild dogs.
When I still worked, the Book People left a complete Thomas The Tank Engine in our office. It included a map of the fictional island off Barrow where the series is set. Alan Moore treatment? - The engines are experimental AIs confined to an artificial island...
'Sf story idea: shopping trolleys are mobile AIs and some have escaped into the undergrowth like wild dogs.'
ReplyDeleteActually there have been similar ideas to this for ages. I seem to recall a book from the seventies or eighties about the natural life of the supermarket trolley: how they breed, their habitats and so on. This included their inclination to seek out water when death was approaching.
It also, if I recall correctly, included a picture of a trolley dumped in the middle of the Gobi desert. Why? I have no idea.