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Ah, an ad person. I'm sure you can see this from the inside, the advertising industry has built a large surveillance apparatus in order to sell us thing we don

Ah, an ad person. I'm sure you can see this from the inside, the advertising industry has built a large surveillance apparatus in order to sell us thing we don't need. The whole selling things we don't need is already immoral -- but that's a general criticism against advertising and marketing; In this case we have something already dubious turned into a panopticon nightmare. As we grow closer to our technology, this technology is constantly spying on us to order to optimize selling us things we don't need. You can't build trust in technology when that same technology is grassing you out to every huckster who wants to pour junk into your eyeballs.

darawk 8y ago
> Ah, an ad person. I don't work in advertising. > the advertising industry has built a large surveillance apparatus in order to sell us thing we don't need. The whole selling things we don't need is already immoral -- but that's a general criticism against advertising and marketing; In this case we have something already dubious turned into a panopticon nightmare. As we grow closer to our technology, this technology is constantly spying on us to order to optimize selling us things we don't need. That's all a bunch of cute stuff to say, but where's the nightmare? Thinks seem pretty good to me. Do you want to go back 50 years? 100? Which point in history was not a nightmare, to which you'd like to return?