Not really... the focus on advertising is much more Google-specific. The real clunker in this story is that with such advanced technology (mostly AI-complete,

Not really... the focus on advertising is much more Google-specific. The real clunker in this story is that with such advanced technology (mostly AI-complete, as others have pointed out), humans are largely irrelevant, and therefore so is advertising as well as any work we might wish to do. The only way to "fix" this would, I suppose, be to posit a truly symbiotic AI relationship, where these strong AIs can only exist with constant interaction with human thought processes. However, if that was the case, the author should really make this clearer.