Managerial Bionics & Business Strategy

So I'm in a meeting at work, and they're talking about actors. But by actors they mean the different people that use our products, not folk like the Clints Eastwood and Howard. The conversation went like this:

Suit #1: Are we talking here about human actors or machine actors?
Suit #2: Either. Both. We're talking about human and machine actors.
Me: As well as those unfortunate souls who are an unholy fusion of both.
Suit #2: Right. So we're going to have to deal with all actors in the spec documents.
Suit #1: Fine, just as long as we acknowledge that from the beginning.

They didn't miss a beat. So it begs the question: Do they even listen to me at all in these meetings?

Or, perhaps more disturbing: Do we have a cyborg user base that I was unaware of?

Because if we do, I want to get in on those customer meetings as soon as possible.

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[Hugh]

No, it couldn't be cyborgs, because we do not exist, I mean *they* do not exist.

And they are not called customers in that setting. They are called clients, of course.