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What Next TBD: Why Are Bots Buying Sneakers?

Slate Technology

English - October 29, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - ★★★★★ - 548 ratings
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The bots aren’t just buying cool sneakers. They’re buying concert tickets. Tickets to basketball games and Broadway shows. At the beginning of the pandemic, they were buying hand sanitizer and face masks. And later, they were booking vaccine reservation spots.

Why are bots taking over certain markets? And is there anything we can do to slow them down?

Guests: 
Derreck Johnson, designer at Slate
Eric Budish, economics professor at the University of Chicago

Host: Seth Stevenson
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The bots aren’t just buying cool sneakers. They’re buying concert tickets. Tickets to basketball games and Broadway shows. At the beginning of the pandemic, they were buying hand sanitizer and face masks. And later, they were booking vaccine reservation spots.


Why are bots taking over certain markets? And is there anything we can do to slow them down?


Guests: 

Derreck Johnson, designer at Slate

Eric Budish, economics professor at the University of Chicago


Host: Seth Stevenson

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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