I should get a map before I do anything else. That would be the smart thing to do considering the Georgia World Congress Center is the biggest convention center on the planet. Luckily, there’s a whole map stand just past the ticket check.

These things are free, but they’re surprisingly huge. They aren’t just a map, but also a detailed listing of every booth and exhibit and seller table at the convention.

[https://i.imgur.com/URlHXu2.png]

Also, as I flip through the thing, it appears that there is an entire section dedicated to pages and pages of coupons. For some reason. I guess they’re really banking on the middle aged mom crowd coming here and deciding to support all the local Atlanta businesses.

Y’know, we live in the present-day world where there’s robots and computers everywhere. Why isn’t there some sort of electronic method for coupons at this point? Like, maybe a website on your portable PC that has coupon bar codes stored? Eh, that might be a little bit complicated with the internet and all.

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Or... Maybe some proprietary thing where you can store coupons on your shopping robot and then the robot automatically applies any coupon you want to redeem when you send it out for groceries or whatever? And maybe you could store the coupons by inserting proprietary data cards into it that you find at stores and stuff. Yeah, I could see this. Much as I hate robots, I could see this.

I’ve got to pitch this to some of the tech people here. I’m a genius designer and never even knew it.

Well, now that I have the map, I guess I can use it for reference if I ever get lost. And now that I’m here, and now that I’m in the middle of the biggest tech expo of the year, what should I do now?

Guess I should look for the hidden evils right away. Or, maybe I could browse a bit... Or, honestly, I’m kinda hungry...

Hmm...