VIRTUAL BUREAUCRATS.
VIRTUAL BUREAUCRATS.
ALEXANDER PTASHKIN.
Whether the person in a cyberspace can survive? The such
The question set organizers of unusual experiment,
Spent in three Chinese cities.
12 volunteers, passed special tests for a status
Health and ability to use the modern information
Technologies, have been placed in single rooms of local hotels.
There it had been left only the computer and a credit card on 1500
The Chinese yuans (approximately 180 US dollars). Volunteers
Three days unaided from the outside should live, having provided the
Existence, only doing purchases through a network the Internet. Such
In the way specialising on use of "ecash"
Firms have decided to check up a system effectiveness of purchasing,
Not leaving the house, and at the same time to make to itself quite good advertising.
And results of experiment as a whole have justified expectations. From
Twelve persons only one already after the first day of tests
Has surrendered, having declared, that cannot wait more when to it deliver
Reserved and paid through the Internet days ago products
A food. The rests successfully managed to reach finish. For 72
Hour they not only did not starve, but also have managed to be reserved on
The remained money books, souvenirs and cosmetics.
Having analysed results of experiment, its organizers
Have come to conclusion, that the basic problem of purchases of the XXI-st century is
Bureaucracy. Necessity of careful check electronic
Credit card through banks substantially brakes
Process of delivery of the order to clients.
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//* an information Source: Work, 21.09.99
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