Working, private parties all the way to Christmas. Or - the 19th anyways, when they close.
Tonight, private party, an IPO, bunch of doctors soliciting investors to buy into a bunch of digital medical products.
Questions like: "does it use an AI" and "how do you intend to monetize this?..."
Medical miracles forecast daily, the cell-phone, internet, AI - all set to bring medicine into the 20th century - and - more importantly - bring those wise investors who buy in early unbelievable riches...
This software analyzes the speech of babies to identify possible developmental issues - licensed to a baby monitor manufacturer - X$ per month, per license.
"Licensing" - never a product you own, merely "rent" the app or software or hardware - the new model of business, how to keep the revenues coming in, why sell somebody something once when you can sell it to them month after month. The "Subscription based" economy - you're never done paying for as long as you live.
Their partners license apps and software on a monthly basis - per customer, $5, $10, $20 a month each, times a hundred million over-concerned parents, money in lieu of time not spent with child, pluggable cellphone scopes that connect you to a doctor who will diagnose and prescribe you over the phone - just stick it in your ear...your nose, up your ass...
Others, cellphones that track eye movements... detect flush, heartrates, excitement, boredom, breathalyzers that monitor CO2 uptake, make recommendations on diet, exercise - they call it "The Wellness Economy".
Never mind that the economy - this economy - depends upon you NOT being well, or at least believing you're not, and the fact that we even have this in large part explains why you might not be.
This is all techno-quackery of the highest order, and - note they don't have to any of them buy it - they merely have to believe they can make money selling it on to other, more gullible people....buy in for this venture a mere $50,000, for friends of the founders up to $250,000 will be permitted, they're doing the research, choosing only the best of the lot, strategically partnering with those companies they feel have the best chance of succeeding, only 15 or 20% of the best tech-medical get an interview with them, and of these maybe only 25% get a partnership commitment.
The founding Doctor, at the end of it all when most of the guests have left, been feted, demonstrating a pendulum to a loiterer, the ideomotor response, this - this - says it all - how to license and profit from this? Monthly pendulum rentals, no one will figure out how to make one of their own, the "Mind-Body Connection", he's rich already, going to be richer soon, discussing the restaurant, how expensive it is, they spent almost $300 per guest, and he's explaining to a friend how it's money well spent, to lure in the rubes and the greedy...
I have a few ideas of my own, once settled, that conscience long forbid me from acting upon but now, but now, look at this, these people are Doctors and should know better, there was once a time when you would be ashamed to have investments in anything so patently at odds with medicine, science - but - this is how the world is falling apart.
Money is the answer to every one of life's mysteries. Buy in now to ensure you have enough.