You know something has eventually arrived when WIRED covers it.

Well, that’s what happened with TaskRabbit in one of the most recent issues. But my most recent issue is that WIRED is yet to cover a service that Eventualists would be raving about if they had heard of it before: TurtleDo.

TurtleDo operates along the same lines as TaskRabbit, only far slower — or methodically, as I’d prefer to say for buzzword purposes. Select cities have individuals working with TurtleDo called “plodders” that will perform tasks for hire. By bidding for their services over an eventual timeframe (no less than 60 days), those needing tasks that fall into the scope of what plodders will eventually do can avoid doing the task themselves and pass them on to someone who has less of a vested interest than the bidder, but has been paid to do it to compensate for that lack of interest.
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