Ordering Pizza in 2010

2010? Can't wait for pizza that long!

I wonder if you can schedule a weekly delivery from now to 2010?

I really don't care if a company collects information on me as their customer, as long as they don't use it.

No spam! No junk mail!

If I'm waiting 4 years for a pizza it better come with a free trip to Italy.... or Chicago.

You raise a good question. Personally, I'm wary of attempts to retain such information. It's not so much that I don't trust companies to use it properly. My concerns are that they can't safeguard it adequately. Granted, there's not much to worry about if the pizza place down the street knows that I checked out "The One Percent Doctrine" from the public library. But I don't want others - including the government - to claim that they can access such information because it was in "plain view" (e.g., so poorly safeguarded that it might as well be public).

A cute video. All the data presented seems to fit together to form a picture of the guy's situation. The reality is Amazon emailing me suggesting books I should purchase based on previous purchases. They have never hit the mark, indicating that their algorithm is failing to grasp my original motivation.

What is the supermarket doing with that data they are collecting on my by pressuring me to use their "Preferred" card or pay higher prices to stay anonymous? One can collect a lot of data with technology, but turning it into actionable information is the problem.

As we are talking about pizza, those frozen pizza commercials that claim they taste just like fresh made pizza, the reality is that outside of a few places like Chicago, all pizza tastes like it was manufactured and frozen. And who came to the conclusion that putting grilled onions and peppers on a piece of meat makes it a Philly cheese steak? Why in this age of technology do I have to travel to Chicago for a good pizza or Philadelphia for a cheese steak?

In the old, olden days, everyone knew your business in the local village. If your reputation was tainted, you moved to another state or another country. The same thing will apply in the future, except you can't escape the databases by moving. It can be a pleasant future if you don't have a hacker-stalker or if databases are protected from improved future data-mining. I just hope someone invents a way to stop spam-scams and malware.

Who cares if they know what I ordered last time! I think eating the same thing all the time is a pretty boring way to lead life. I laugh at the idea of marketers trying to take advantage of the fact I never eat or shop at the same place twice...keeps life interesting and there's a lot of good things to be found around the next corner, not just at the big store with computer inventories and phone systems.