Conversation

The problem: "I'd like to to make the tea/coffee preferences of my team available so people don't need to ask when doing a coffee run or feel like making a cup of tea for their colleagues"

The UNIX way: Put your tea/coffee preferences in your .plan on the shared SPARC server.

The early web: A static HTML file with a table.

The web: A CGI application written in perl where people can update their preferences.

Web 2.0: LAMP stack in a VM with a JavaScript enabled fancy front-end wherein you can drag sugar icons into your cup. You can click to share your love of tea on social media.

AI: We trawl all staff social media, email and recorded phone calls to build a coffee and tea profile. I don't give a fuck if you're lactose intolerant, the AI says latté and AI is always right. We've discontinued the coffee machine and tea in the break room to pay for the first year cloud bill for the AI.