> being advertised to at every possible moment is the price we pay for our societies' current modern development It's the opposite - advertising is a parasitic

> being advertised to at every possible moment is the price we pay for our societies' current modern development It's the opposite - advertising is a parasitic phenomenon, leeching talent and resources that could otherwise be spent more productively, and what we get in return is an information environment skewed to make us spend money, and a landscape marred by this visual cancer. But ads are in no way a fact of life we have to get used to - they can be defeated, or at least kept at bay. Some cities have banned them: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5338 http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5338