In fact, its revenues per customer for people who interacted with it in its stores and via the web and mobile devices were six times those generated by people who just shopped at its stores.
How it was born, what it did for a living, and how its early adopters interacted with it, raised it, was a mystery to me.
The users who had help from a robot not only trusted the robot more than a computer dispensing similar advice, but rated its advice more highly and interacted with it more.
The beam, hanging just a foot or so above the padded platform, was set spinning, and before anyone had interacted with it there was a sense of menace; you could feel its cold weight lumbering around, like a shark in shallow water, ready to strike.
It was harmless until modern times, when some new aspect of the human environment, presumably high-calorie food, interacted with it to raise the risk of obesity.
"I was walking around, looking at the type and the way people interacted with it, and I just saw the whole film in my head.
