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DHL, 20.9.2019

Forget Jules Verne - Around the World in a MINUTE with DHL’s android personal courier service

Dear Customer,

Until now, you have probably known of us as the world’s finest courier service. We have made an art of handling all the traffic that electronic mail cannot manage. If you require it, we can take your consignment anywhere in the known world - and beyond. But now we wish to serve you in a totally new and revolutionary fashion. We can now transport YOU to all corners of the globe - even to one of the orbiting space stations or to the Moon.

We are naturally eager to offer you the fastest and the most economical means of travel at our disposal. Send a DHL Remotivator™ in your stead. It is a hologram-android built perfectly in your own image. Using a Remotivator™ you can be anywhere in the world in under an hour, in a bustling metropolis, in the desert, under the trees of a tropical rain forest, anywhere and everywhere where the SatWeb network reaches. We can even arrange you a trip around the world in 80 MINUTES in which you stop off in all the places described by Jules Verne in his famous novel. Transport between virtual environments is now history - just as physical travel will soon be a thing of the past.

Want to know more? Sure you do!

DHL has outlets within a radius of 200 kilometres of all inhabited areas on the planet. When we receive your order, our installation staff will bring to your address a virtual cockpit. At the same time, the DHL office closest to your chosen destination will take a Remotivator™ to the spot and during the journey they will programme it to correspond roughly to your physical characteristics. Then the hologram screen on the surface of the android completes the picture to match perfectly the image of you relayed from the virtual cockpit.

When you enter the virtual cockpit, you will see the surroundings at your destination - let’s say Sydney, Australia - through the eyes of the Remotivator™ android, and you can move the limbs of your Remotivator™ perfectly naturally, just as if they were your own. It will feel exactly as though you have travelled to the spot yourself - but without the effects of jetlag, travel-weariness, and surly immigration officials! The Remotivator™ is so lifelike that people on the spot will believe that it is YOU who is taking those pictures of the Opera House ruins, or soaking up the safe-sun on Bondi’s indoor beach.

I’m sure all this sounds wonderful to you, but I’m also sure you are thinking - “It must cost a fortune!”. You’d be surprised. Our services on intercontinental trips are only marginally more expensive than the combined cost of a tiring and time-consuming 1st Class flight and the necessary accommodation when you arrive. We can also rent you a personal virtual cockpit and several Remotivator™ androids for longer periods. Then you can simply drop in to countless places in the world as and when you like - and not waste a minute in crowded airport lounges!

Contact us today for more information on how to bring the world to YOUR doorstep!

Hardy Ghostens

EVP, REMOTIVATOR™ SALES

DHL (A MEMBER OF THE SATWEB GROUP OF COMPANIES)

Toteuma-arvio 2026

Toteuma lyhyesti

  • Ilmiön toteuma: 4/5
  • Toteuma viiden vuoden tarkkuudella: kyllä; arviointi-ikkuna on 2014–2024
  • Toteuma väljemmällä aikahorisontilla: kyllä, erittäin vahvasti
  • Ilmiön ydin: ihminen voi lähettää fyysisen matkustamisen sijasta etäläsnäolorobotin tai realistisen digitaalisen edustajan toimimaan toisessa paikassa.

Etäläsnäolorobotit, videoneuvottelu, VR-avatarit ja etäohjattavat laitteet mahdollistavat kokouksiin, opetukseen ja vierailuihin osallistumisen kaukaa. Täydellistä hologrammiandroidia ei kuljeteta kuriirina, mutta sen tehtävä toteutuu.

Johtopäätös: ydin ruumiillistuneesta etäläsnäolosta toteutui olennaisilta osin.