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Shades of both Philip K Dick and Frank Herbert here. This is one of the best SF short stories I've read for a while.

• ryandrake 5y ago
  “Please drink verification can.” The sad thing is, we engineers are building this dystopia. Maybe even fellow HN readers. Our next JIRA ticket in the queue is to shove another ad onto another previously unmonetized surface. Many of us are actively bringing about this world! The engineer who built this grocery screen was probably highly compensated for it. The biz guys who just hi-5'ed each other for "crushing it" are too, and the entrepreneur is probably already a millionaire. Everyone's making money by being part of the problem.
  • xmprt 5y ago
    I remember a company patented an invention where people would have to shout <brand name> at the TV to get the advertisement to stop.
    • TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
      Would it allow or reject “FUCK COKE!”. Probably force-repeat the ad.
      • truenamenofame 5y ago
        It offers a Pepsi instead.
      • baliex 5y ago
        I’m not a human psychology expert by any means but I’m afraid think this would probably still work in their favour. “There’s no such thing as bad publicity” is a thing because just having your brand name out there (even if it’s bad news) is better than it not being out there at all. Fuck advertising and the greedy profit-driven place it comes from.
• briankelly 5y ago
  Wow, thanks!