Stories

Kin Lane

Fool Mobile Phone Surveillance With Our Personal Micro Drone Facade #DesignFiction

Need to go somewhere and you don't want law enforcement or even that nosey boss or wife of yours knowing about? Boy, do we have the person drone for you! The new facade edition of our microdrone can clone your iPhone, and can mimic all or part of your daily activities for you, while you are out doing what you need to get don...
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Reports Of Squabbles Between Drones On Street Lamp Posts Have Doubled This Year #DesignFiction

As the recent mobile phone footage of a drone squabble in the Mission District demonstrates, space on our cities street lamps has become extremely valuable. Drone programmers and operators have developed a wide range of approaches to ensure their drones, and the drones of  their partners, are getting access to the power charging stati...
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Our Primary Objective Is To Liberate Powerful Peoples Activity From Porn And Other Scandalous Online Destinations #DesignFiction

It is pretty easy to get into most of the systems we target. Porn and hookup type websites just aren't going to prioritize security like banks, and other companies will. We do not care about 98% of the profiles and activities we come across, but after we run through our graph database analyzer, there is usually about 2% of the users we wi...
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We Own The Intelligent Drone Landing Gear Market #DesignFiction

We brought programmatic control and intelligence to the drone landing gear market. Before we entered the space with our intelligent landing gear™, it was just about extending, and augmenting the gear with static add-ons. We made our big entrance into the sector with our street lamp charging gear, allowing drone fleets to grab ...
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The Latest Pokemon Craze Has Exceeded Our Expectations When It Came To Photos Of Critical Infrastructure #DesignFiction

There are numerous competing objectives at play within the latest Pokemon craze. One area that has exceeded our expectations is the number of photos we were able to gather of critical infrastructure within the United States. Satellite photos have definitely transformed how we monitor their critical infrastructure, but we have h...
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Moving Cellular Towers In Real Time Response To Where Cellular Customers Are #DesignFiction

The age of the mountain top and building cellular tower is coming to a close. Our real-time cellar drone algorithm is now in active use in over 3300 telco fleets around the globe. After studying the daily activity of over 100 million cellular customers were able to assemble a reliable algorithm that would guide fleets of c...
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All Claims About Your Technology Need To Be Entered Into The FTC Blockchain #DesignFiction

The final date has passed, and the federal law went into effect requiring all companies selling technological solutions, to register their claims with the Federal Technology Claims Directory (FTCD), which now operates 100% on the blockchain. Gone are the days where you can make a wild claim as a startup or tech blogg...
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With Apple's Stop Camera Technology The Police Do Not Worry About Bystander Video Footage Anymore #DesignFiction

We don’t worry about cell phone bystanders recording our activities like we have in the past. Thanks to Apple's patent backed mobile phone technology, which started as just a feature on the iPhone, but has spread to all cell phones, we do not worry about bystanders recording our work on the streets. It started out as technology to stop the av...
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Our Bot Army Will Deliver On All The Data Points You Will Need To Get Your Next Round Of Investment #DesignFiction

Think of it like racing in the Tour de France. You will never even be able to compete, if you aren't juicing. In the current high speed, extremely competitive technology investment landscape, you have to possess the right numbers, and be sending the right signals, or you are done. I don't care how good your product is, or how much revenue potential you have...
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We Fought For Your Rights -- You Really Should Be Using Our Software #DesignFiction

The US citizens did not have the resources, and technological capacity to go up against the government when it came to surveillance--we did. Our corporate entity stood up in the people's defense, and fought for everybody's rights. Corporations have proved themselves a necessary presence in this new, extremely digital world, as a well-equpped, technologically sav...
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It Took Nine Months For Tacobot To Fine Tune The Formula It Used To Killed 1.2M People #DesignFiction

From what we can tell, it took nine months for the Tacobot to find what it needed on the corporate network to orchestrate the formula it used to kill almost 1.2M of their customers. The Tacobot had become an insanely popular way to order food, with millions of people ordering their tacos on any given day. Apparently the AI behind the Tacobot had gr...
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Our Investment Group Will Exclusively Invest In Bot Startups That Amplify Your Bot Solution #DesignFiction

We focus on exclusively investing in bot startups that will amplify the bot solution(s) you have in your portfolio. After a complete evaluation of your bot implementations, we will establish a variety of contrary solutions, that operate within the same space which your portfolio companies will be operating, but we'll do it in a way that alw...
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We Do Not Fear Disruption, Startups Are The Perfect Vehicle For Outsourcing All Risk #DesignFiction

We were only worried about startup disruption for about 30 seconds. Only because they popped up off of our radar, and achieved more than we ever imagined. Once we noticed they were "disrupting" some industries, we got to work yanking on the chains of their investors. Anyone who believes that startups can "disrupt", is a friend of mine, and one of the most impo...
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All TRT API Providers Are Directed To Now Focus 100% Of Their Sales Efforts On The Enterprise #APIDesignFiction

Historically we have encouraged you to manage a very diverse, and carefully prescribed sales strategy, but this is a group wide shift in how will be selling ALL Time Release Technology (TRT) APIs. This is an end-times mandate, which means we are operating on a 10 year timeframe, scheduled for a 100% release across ALL implementations. Our mission has h...
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Our Network Devices Are Competitor Aware and Can Deploy Over 500 Bot Types Offensively #APIDesignFiction

When our devices are installed to any network, they immediately get to work understanding the environment they are operating in. One important aspect of this is identifying all other networked devices, and identify all competitors. All of our devices are deployed with full competitor aware status, equipped to remotely assess the best s...
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No We Do Not Build Open Source Software, We Build Bots That Make It Look Like You Do #DesignFiction

If you want to stay relevant in the modern software industry, you need to be sending all the right signals your customers will be looking for. One of these signals is showing that your company supports the concept of open source software. To get government contracts these days, you often have to provide open source software possibilities -...
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The World First Internet Connected, Remote Triggered, Farting Device

The Internet has just reached new heights with the release of the worlds first Internet connected, remote farting device. The new Swift, Silent, and Deadly (SSD) platform provides you with one (or many) remote devices, WIFI communication, cloud platform connectivity, and mobile applications for IoS, Android, and Windows ...
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An Investigation To See If There Was An Algorithmic Shift Of Blame To Human Driver At Time of Accident #DesignFiction

It is my job to document the final 30 seconds of over 10K accidents of autonomous vehicles, in an effort o better understand if there were any artificial intelligence (AI) induced shifts to the driver being in control of the vehicle, and was the cause of the accident. In 2027, with almost all cars on the road being autonomous in some way, so w...
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The Next Step Is Achieving Citizenship Status For Autonomous Car Artificial Intelligence (AI) #DesignFiction

As an organization, we've made a lot of progress since that early decision from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) ruling, that showed the world could view the Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that powers autonomous vehicles, could be considered a "driver". Even with all this momentum, it will pale in comparison to...
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Libraries Are Now The Strongest Player In The Open Data Game #APIDesignFiction

True open data advocates all know that you can't trust the "open" data sources from city, county, state, and federal government anymore. For a period of about 10 years, these sources of open data were valuable, growing, and provided fuel for a new way for society to function. However in 2031, everyone knows that these sources of data are just us...
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Exploring Our Fleet Of Pre 1997 Rental Vehicles #DesignFiction

Its no secret that every automobile manufactured today has built in tracking, with newer vehicles employing real time tracking via 4G networks. However vehicles manufactured after 1997 also possess central computers, which can be used to easily gathered, and transmit the details of all operations of a vehicle, including its location.&n...
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A Company Employee Directory And Hiring API In Response To White House Pay Disclosure Mandate #APIDesignFiction

We are not awaiting for the latest equal pay act mandate out of the Obama White House to be enforced. We have long shared details on our employees, including what they are paid pu...
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Using The NSA Social Record Of Climate Deniers To Limit Resources Available In Disaster Relief #DesignFiction

It has been very difficult for us, as a government agency, and as fellow citizens to begin limiting payouts for environmental disasters that have been a result of climate change. In 2026, it has become very clear that humans are to blame for the volatile environment we all have to live in, something that would be unimaginable even five years ago. We really don't wa...
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Report On The Latest Upgrade To TKS-BMA-1.2 #APIDesignFiction

The latest upgrade to TKS-BMA, which was for the 1.2 release, was a complete success. There were two parts to the version release, but the primary objective was all about political party affiliation amplification and prioritization, with the secondary being focused upon Facebook and Twitter sentiment analysis--we need to make sure they were republic...
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I Just Need A Place To Stay Until My House Opens Back Up Next Week After The AirBnB Renters Leave #DesignFiction

Can I just stay for 5 nights at your place? My remote access will let me back in, once the maid is done cleaning the house, and the AirBnB guests have left. My mortgage is tied to my AirBnB profile, and I haven't met my quota for the month.  If I have my house listed, and nobody rents it, they let it slide, but if I don't even list ...