Since the idea is posed as a thought experiment*, with your contributions as the stimulus, do you conceive of the normative evaluations that you solicit ("for this idea or against it") as the outcome(s)? If so, will you attempt to account for the distibution of those responses, such as the demographics or status characteristics of those for (or against) such as store? You might, instead or in addition, solicit similarly experimental elements, such as expectations about when such a store will exist, where it might emerge first, what popular reactions to it might be, problems that might be encountered in such as store, or, as I would be inclined to offer, ideas about how such as store is but a physical manifestation of transactions and interactions taking place constantly over the Internet. * Compare other examples at http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=thought+experiment&gwp=13 or http://tinyurl.com/gu4b4 -eg
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Sandeep Krishnamurthy Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 8:04 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] "The Automated Wal-Mart- A Thought Experiment"- Request for commentaries.
Dear List Members,
Some of you may be interested in an online thought experiment I am conducting titled- "The Automated Wal-Mart- A Thought Experiment". If you find the title intriguing, do check out-
http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/automated or http://tinyurl.com/peoq8
I am currently soliciting short commentaries. I will post all entries on the site (unless they are incoherent beyond recognition). Hope to hear from you at sandeep@u.washington.edu.
Thanks.
Sandeep Krishnamurthy http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep
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