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Every time I see ads in a new place, I think of this quote. > Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?" > Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only o
by nathan_long 8y ago
Every time I see ads in a new place, I think of this quote.
> Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?"
> Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky. But not in dreams, no siree.
- roymurdock 8y agoGreat quote One day we'll engineer a way for humans to survive without sleep in order to boost productivity, unless the dream ad lobby is strong enough to kill the anti-sleeper bills and R&D
- mooman219 8y agoDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Ibethewalrus 8y agoAbsolutely P. K. Dick
- no1youknowz 8y agoI think it'll be more of an inception type affair. Where the individual can go into their own world. With time dilation to engage in whatever they wanted. Imagine spending 5 years working on a startup, where in reality 8 hours passed by. Even better, if you had something like neural lace, where you could have a simulated reality and interact with other dreamers and even save your progress to the real world. This would change everything.
- roymurdock 8y agoSounds absolutely awful, but I bet you could pitch this Magic-leap "big vision" "10-20 years out" style and get SoftBank to throw a few hundred $M your way
- bigiain 8y agoExcellent! Five man years of call centre staffing in every team member's shift! Think of how much more outbound marketing we can afford to do now!!! (BRB, calling my patent lawyer...)
- IanCal 8y ago> Imagine spending 5 years working on a startup, where in reality 8 hours passed by. That would require you to be able to process information dramatically faster, by at least a thousand or more times (even cutting out non-work time).
- thecleaner 8y agoPlot of my book for sure. Thank you very much !
- roel_v 8y agoBut is it that bad? I have the impression I see much less ads nowadays, between watching more Youtube (Premium) than TV, better ad blocking technology, better legislation against cold calling and door to door advertising (in Western Europe), and a reduction of obnoxious billboards through various dynamics. I don't even see Herbalife-style stickers on lamp posts any more.
- calgoo 8y agoAt least personally i feel that Im just ignoring and filtering it better. But everything is an ad: the plastic bag with the store brand, the bus stops, the buses, the taxis, building, construction sites, etc.
- philpem 8y agoSounds a bit like "sign-blindness". When you put so many warning signs on something that they all just fade into the noise...