Attention Tokyo Shoppers:, The Wireless World is 63 years early. |
Attention Tokyo Shoppers:, The Wireless World is 63 years early. |
Dec 30 2006, 05:38 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
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Dec 31 2006, 05:02 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
I agree, but if you factor in the disasters that occured between now & 2070, the tech isn't so much born, it's rediscovered by then.
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Dec 31 2006, 05:47 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: 1-June 06 From: Nova Scotia, Canada Member No.: 8,631 |
I'm just waiting for Spam Spam.
"Ever have your 2.5 children asking what's for supper, and you realizing that you don't have anything to answer with? Try SPAM, a delicious canned meat. Comes in many flavors, including Low-Salt Spam, Spam Lite, and Spam Oven Roasted Turkey. A couple of recipe suggestions: # Egg, bacon and spam # Egg, bacon, sausage and spam # Spam, bacon, sausage and spam" |
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Dec 31 2006, 06:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 10-July 05 Member No.: 7,492 |
Who would pay money to get ads? We get enough for free as it is! |
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Dec 31 2006, 06:09 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
Let's not forget Spam Spam Spam Spam Eggs Bacon Baked Beans Sausage & Spam. Vikings are optional. :spin: |
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Jan 3 2007, 06:56 PM
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Genuine Artificial Intelligence Group: Members Posts: 4,019 Joined: 12-June 03 Member No.: 4,715 |
Do you know what the real problem with my shopping experience is? Not enough advertisements! I mean, without a steady bombardment of ads how am I, the consumer, supposed to know what to buy, consume, and think? It would be a cold and lonely world without the ads to tell me what products will make me sexy and...*cough* ack, sorry, I just can't do it anymore. Too much bullshit, even for me. |
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Jan 3 2007, 08:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 28-July 05 Member No.: 7,526 |
:( I know people like that. . . and they vote.
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Jan 3 2007, 08:56 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Terrifying. |
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Jan 3 2007, 09:33 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...we already do today by having a a Cable or Sat TV contract. ...which is just one reason I do not have Cable or Sat TV. |
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Jan 4 2007, 02:10 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 308 Joined: 1-June 06 From: Nova Scotia, Canada Member No.: 8,631 |
I don't know how many people actually have read the story 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In', but part if the theme is that it became illegal to advertise products. So, you don't have commercials anymore. However, that raises a problem; if you don't see products being advertised, how do you know what's out there and if they're any good? Word of mouth. You know someone who uses something, so you then buy that brand or that product because if they're using it and they like it, it is good.
So, now just picture that; word of mouth selling products, but how does that chain get started? Maybe it's a brand you saw in a tv show? But what if two TV shows use two different brands? Or if the company can't afford to get their product on TV? People wouldn't buy things, new inventions would get lost, it would be the end to the society as we know. That's where the Beautiful People come in. Biosculpted people to look as beautiful as ever, these people are on a corporate payroll to show off the things that they've bought; to basically be walking advertisements. Celebrities who you want to be like, so you buy what they buy, eat what they eat, and all that. ;) I am almost thinking that might be better in some ways than the cyberpunk sort of advertising world. Blimps flying through the city with advertisments for perfumes; whole sides of buildings covered with a TV screen to tell you do drink Coke and to eat rice balls; walkways that barrage our senses with ads catered to us by scanning our retinas.... Or a world where people are marketing sheep, following the herd. If nothing else, it'll be a) less clutter and noise everywhere and b)No interrupted TV broadcasts. |
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Jan 4 2007, 11:15 AM
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Snakehandler Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,454 Joined: 28-April 06 From: London, England Member No.: 8,508 |
Abercrombie & Fitch has been doing this for years. They go to campuses, spot the hottest male and female Greeks, and pay them to wear their clothes and tell others about how cool they are. As for the earlier query about who would actually pay to receive advertising, here in Japan some of the top selling magazines on the racks are essentially mail order catalogs. They are dressed up to look like fashion magazines, and cost about the same. |
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Jan 4 2007, 03:55 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...just like some of those "Geek" mags in the 90s, and the Sunday Paper (at least where I live). Seems like 95% of the content was ads.
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