[HN Gopher] GE Answer Center, 1989 Commercial [video]
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GE Answer Center, 1989 Commercial [video]
Author : 1970-01-01
Score : 27 points
Date : 2023-01-26 20:19 UTC (1 days ago)
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| ugh123 wrote:
| So, is ChatGPT supposed to be the modern "GE Answer Center"?
| Seems plausible
| toast0 wrote:
| I _think_ the GE Answer Center is just support for their
| appliances? Not a general question line.
|
| Hard to tell from the ad though.
| kube-system wrote:
| Or is ChatGPT the modern answering machine? Depends on how
| empowered it will be to actually solve problems, which given
| the failure of other automated customer service systems, I
| suspect it won't.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| See also: https://www.csmonitor.com/1982/0729/072913.html
| gumby wrote:
| Man, I miss that newspaper! It probably still exists, but went
| downhill so far I stoped subscribing when it was still a paper
| edition.
| nayuki wrote:
| Also on the HN front page right now,
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34541926 "A Fix-It-Yourself
| Trend for Appliances (1983)"
| kube-system wrote:
| Looking back, it's really amazing how the 24/7 economy has slowly
| taken over. Could you imagine someone running a grocery store
| today that wasn't open on the weekend?
| jdblair wrote:
| A new experience for me since I moved from California to
| Amsterdam: A local shop where we often buy vegetables closed
| for the entire month of August, with a hand written note on the
| window. In September they were open again.
| pan69 wrote:
| When I was young, 70's early 80's, in the country I grew up in
| stores were closed on Sunday. Impossible to imagine now.
| kube-system wrote:
| I don't remember many stores being open on Sunday back in the
| 90s where I was from in the US. Heck, the US still has some
| blue laws floating around.
|
| https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/no-more-blue-laws-
| stor...
| 404mm wrote:
| Lot of lines became pretty blurry in the recent few decades.
| Lots of business target the "off time". Lots of companies offer
| or run non-traditional schedules where employees are off on
| "work days". And finally, saying "we're closed for the
| holidays" - which ones? It's becoming less clear with so many
| cultures in the mix.
|
| So yes, 24/7 became the norm. And it's ok if people get paid
| fairly and are willing to do it. On a side note, I do miss the
| old simpler days.
| lotsofpulp wrote:
| With dual income M-F 7AM to 6PM working households becoming
| common, I assume there would be significant demand outside of
| those hours for non work activities.
|
| The interesting part would be if grocery stores start
| charging more for evening/weekend/overnight hours.
| Animats wrote:
| The GE Answer Center is still available, at the 800 number in the
| ad.
| nayuki wrote:
| It's like they know that "Cool URIs don't change"!
| https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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