RAT a bit of Tomlinson.

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

 The play: Millennium Bug.

The main Subject: a computer program, code-name veritas,  which purports to
run your finances- but actually runs your soul.
 Thwe situation, a momolgue delivered from a boss/convert (Dr. PROFIT), to
an employee/skeptic.


				PROFIT

You are lonely.  You want companionship.  You need people.  But people lie.
You rely on random chance to connect you with friends and lovers and
business partners.  You have to endure the dating scene and the convention
scene and the endless posturing and positioning.  That's good enough for
some people - people who need others to collude with them in self-deception
- but VERITAS now offers its subscribers a revolutionary force in human
relations.  The Truth.

Each act of shopping, each market transaction, is an act of
self-disclosure.  VERITAS compiles data from point-of-sale terminals,
credit card statements, automatic tellers, medical records, insurance
records, and every available record to construct a complete and accurate
profile of each subscriber - and millions who haven't yet made the
commitment.  Using statistical analysis and collaborative filtering, we
find the people with whom you're most likely to successfully interface.
[Faces on screen with descriptive statistics]  The right colleagues, the
right friends, the right lovers.  And we're committed to getting you all
together - as easily, as pleasurably as possible.

Put yourself in the market and choose the level of awareness that suits
your temperament.  With full awareness, we send you e-mail daily, informing
you of promising prospects.  Click on any that interest you, and VERITAS
will arrange a meeting.  Of course, if your prospect has lots of prospects,
you may have to bid for a slot on his calendar.  VERITAS brokers the
transaction so that you just show up and let things happen.

Turn down the awareness setting, and VERITAS makes all the decisions for
you, arranging matches where the odds are best.  Times, places and people
appear on your schedule - as if by magic.

Set the awareness level at zero and you get the illusion of total
spontaneity.  Who really needs a schedule anyway?  VERITAS discerns your
routines and those of others from our infinite databank.  We know how
traffic lights are timed.  We know how long it takes you to wash a load of
clothes.  We can manipulate the environment and prices to get you closer to
the people you need to meet.  Carry the Palm Pilot Electrostat, and VERITAS
will send pleasurable electrical impulses coursing through you when you're
close to someone special.  You'll literally tingle as you meet fascinating,
compatible people with complete spontaneity at the laundry-mat and the post
office.  VERITAS arranges everything, invisibly, so that you get the best
return on every moment of your day.