Industrial Spam

By Mat Morrison May 16th, 2007
In Stories

Living, as we (and most of you) do in a post-industrial society, the spam we receive is related to:

- service industries (financial products and the like - in fact as some of you will recall, the first spammers were lawyers)
- leisure & entertainment (mostly travel & sex)
- high tech, high R&D investment, IP-reliant industries (mostly pharmaceuticals and software)
- criminal activity (419 scams, phishing etc.)

Today I received this from a Chinese spammer:

Chinese Spam.png

Which is just brilliant. Big industrial machine spam. In the past, I’ve received widget spam, and fast-fashion spam. Simplistically (in Negroponte’s terms) Chinese spam is all about atoms, Western spam is all about bits. Chinese spam is all about commercial distribution opportunities. Western spam is all about individual need.

That’s globalism for you right there.

Incidentally, about 10 years ago, I used to receive “flying shoe” spam from Chinese distributors. There were these shoes with wheels in the heels. Clearly never going to take off, I thought.

Maybe I should look into these generators.

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Steve Jay // May 20, 2007 at 11:18 pm

    Just what I need…where can I get one?

  • 2 Mat Morrison // May 21, 2007 at 9:38 am

    Hello, Mr Jay — how nice to see you here.

    Now, what would you need with an industrial generator? Hmm?

  • 3 Dan O'Connor // May 21, 2007 at 10:38 am

    To generate industry, presumably, Mat.

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