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Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses
New submitter waspleg sends news of a letter Google sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission in which the tech giant laid out its vision of an ad-filled future. They wrote, "We expect the definition of “mobile” to continue to evolve as more and more “smart” devices gain traction in the market. For example, a few years from now, we and other companies could be serving ads and other content on refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities. Our expectation is that users will be using our services and viewing our ads on an increasingly wide diversity of devices in the future, and thus our advertising systems are becoming increasingly device-agnostic."
First thing I'd do is disable networking on these devices.
I have Adblock on my refrigerator.
I foresee a future in which black tape or other opaque adhesive objects will be used to blot out the ads. Maybe I should get a patent..
"a device which obscures the user from seeing mind-numbing and intrusive advertising on products which have already purchased"
Google can shove their ad-laden future straight up their collective asses.
My dad bought a 60-inch Panasonic TV not all that long ago. It automatically connects to the internet, and serves ads at several points during routine operation - one during power-on, one whenever the volume is changed, and one during the "change input" screen.
I've told him I can turn the ads off (you just disable Viera Connect and they go away) but he won't have any part of it.
Publicly-traded technical advertising company announces expectation of profit in advertising on tech devices. Stop the presses.
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
just what the world needs...more AD's almost as bad a flooding a supermarked with hundreds of rats and mice...
No. Thank. You. Why is this now the default instead of delivering a device that just works without the internet?
If my fridge is smart enough to know what's in it and learn my usage patterns for consuming items (milk for instance) maybe this could work. I guess I wouldn't mind if my local grocer gave me a coupon for $0.50 off milk directly on my fridge. Or maybe it could give me a recipe to try for dinner and a list of things to pick up at the store. Might help with the "What do you want for dinner tonight? I dunno, what do you want?" conversation that happens on a nightly basis.
If adverts get that pervasive, the value of each one is going to decline substantially. If I see 40 adverts before breakfast, I can't possibly buy each and every one of the products. There's only so much disposable income. If this gets pushed out, it's going to be self defeating.
The ads! I can't get them out of my head! Even when I close my eyes they're there! Why did I buy Google Contact Lenses?!?
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Here we go, here's the real reason for the internet of things, not to benefit consumers in any way, but to pollute their visual environment with ads.
Would you like me to order some cigarettes and a pregnancy test for you?
isn't evil? Pointless complexity on multiple devices in order to annoy the 'purchaser'. Even a free fridge that played the Depends jingle every morning would be too costly; now imagine a kitchen that sounds like people arguing 24/7.
'Nuff said!
It's going to take a very compelling 'smart' feature to make applying the protocol currently used for the blinding-eyeburner-superbright blue LEDs that manufacturers insist on sticking everywhere to the hypothetical screens that will be displaying ads everywhere.
Between electrical tape, spraypaint, and maybe a bit of glass etching (when more polite flavors of disconnecting or firmware modification don't suffice) I see no reason for anything that doesn't need a screen to remain equipped with one.
...would you be willing to receive a brand new $2000 frig/freezer for free IF it showed ads on it?
that's the real issue...i think alot of people would...hell I probably would.
never bring a twinkie to a food fight.
"we and other companies could be serving ads and other content on refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities"
Nothing a little paint can't fix on the fridge. As for the watch, analog all the way. Glasses, better not be RX glasses and wooden cups will be the new cool. Dashboards on cars can be a distraction and I'd hope would be fought tooth and nail against. Thermostats can be given the black cloth treatment.
For adblock to do an IPO
Do no evil? FUCK GOOGLE
As far as the automotive portion of this, they've overlooked a pretty critical detail: With the exception of navigation and car-control, the driver cannot be in a position to view moving video or flashy graphics--it's explicitly illegal to design a car in such a way that such garish distraction could catch the driver's eye at a critical moment.
As for the rest: I know of few people that would do anything other than smash the screen out of a refrigerator that was blaring ads at them every time they walked past (since what's the point of showing ads when the door is opened and, presumably, the "screen" is facing away from the person you're trying to show an ad to?) so I imagine that's going to cut-down on their response-rate on those ads.
In short, I'm fucking laughing thinking about how disappointed they're likely to be. Humans are already on advertising overload--it was 5,000 impressions per day per person TWENTY YEARS AGO, before the Internet even existed. I can't even guesstimate how much ad-crap we see now... Probably a fair-bit more than 5,000 impressions per day, though.
Who did what now?
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.
What is Glass with networking disabled? Just a device to trick people into punching you for no reason?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The software is opensource, then I have no problem with the ads. Shit, they could probably GIVE AWAY refrigerators and still make tons of money through the ads.
Yes, I see where they would want that.
Yes, I see how looking at facebook et al. makes people think that privacy is dead.
I also realize that we are still in the infancy of the internet revolution and you can't project current uses forward, but instead must realize that the tide will turn against them.
We are currently in the pre-OSHA stage of the Internet Revolution.
Just as people had to fight for safety and work limits during the industrial revolution, we will end up stopping people from abusing our privacy. It just takes a little bit of time for the regulations to catch up.
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subsidizing my internet bandwidth and electricity bills for all these ads they want to continuously display?
Me: *digging in fridge looking for a midnight snack*
MS Clippy: Uh oh! It looks like you're about to go off your diet again! Would you like help with that?
to bring their junk into my home. I
n/t
Have gnu, will travel.
I will rip the fing screen off the fridge with my bare hands if I have to. We have done really well getting rid of the sickness that is advertisement. We don't watch tv and at all times we have adblockers on the computers. (except the ipad which I refuse to use for web browsing)
The only things left are ads on billboards and music radio station ads... we just turn it off when the ads come on. Mostly we stick to npr otherwise.
New! Google Watch!
It can't tell you the time, but it monitors everything you do.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
The most intrusive ads for me are already the airlines ads played on the seatback screen two feet in front of your face.
Imagine if Google would display helpful ads based on your itinerary. The flights to Vegas could become very interesting...
I won't be buying their products then
Btw, do they also foresee the number of glassholes' noses that are currently being broken worldwide on a daily basis? No joke, every day there's a new story. And hopefully many more.
Just watch Idiocracy
If they give the appliances and car for free then I can see myself allowing advertising to some point.
I have script and ad blocks and bogus host file entries to speed up browsing but can honestly say I don't pay attention to ads when they get through, When looking for something to buy I do the search and find it hard to believe unsolicited ads bring in any customers.
Are there really people who click through and buy something because an ad says they need it?
I think advertisers are shooting themselves in the foot with this, I have recently noticed just don't believe a word any of them say anymore, Its like I am building up an immunity to them, and they need to create bigger and bigger lies, ops I mean deceptions.
Before I saw a sale advertised as "Demolition", I went in and it was 10% off, well I could negotiate that any time, hardly a demolition sale, now I just don't even bother going in. If I need something I go in sure, but I don't go in because of a sale or stated discount, because they are so likely to be lying that it is not even worth the effort step inside the shop to find out.
My daughter asked me how much I believed the advertisements on TV, and I said not at all, I then started paying attention to the ads and rating if I believed them, and if i thought they where using hiding some important fact from me. The answer was unless it was a public service ad where they where not trying to sell me something, like don't speed, I didn't believe them at all. And even public service advertisements I think they are fudging the truth in order for them to get me to do what they think is best for me.
What we need to do is start charging to be advertised to, I think this specifically applies to junk mail, which goes directly in the bin, since I have to pay to dispose of it.
The solution is simple: don't purchase these types of devices. There is more than one supplier of refrigerators, thermostats, glasses, etc. These companies do not hold a monopoly in their respective markets.
For example: it is still possible to purchase a completely mechanically controlled refrigerator with a mechanical thermostat and defrost control (no keypads, no advanced CPU controls, no circuit boards to fail with the latest power surge) which still have a respectable low energy utilization. When you stop looking at the wiz-bang features and purchase items for what they actually do, the cost drops and these gimmicks don't exist.
I'm not saying advanced controls aren't helpful (some appliances need these advanced controls), just stop this design cycle where everyone races to the bottom (cheapest).
Take a closer look at the Nest thermostat (which Google just bought). For a device that is supposed to perform a simple climate control function and reduce energy usage when away, it does a rather piss-poor job of it (check out their own community forums, there are more than just a couple of users experiencing issues). Try it with a heat-pump with standard electric heat backup (fairly common) and look into their recovery algorithm (hint: IT SUCKS), almost every other competitor has been making thermostats for years that performs this basic control better.
It is amazing how many people will defend their devices/purchases, with all the latest features and cool factor, when the basic functions perform so horribly.
In the grim future of Google, there are only ads...
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
There's no way I'm going to accept advertising on my souvenir Iron Man 3 soda cup!
In my opinion, Google seems to be degrading rapidly, along with the other social collapse happening in the U.S., documented in the book, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America.
i forsee installing adblock plus on my refrigerator then..
.... the username 'Escort Wagon' painted a picture in my head that had nothing to do with cars. I'm still smiling about it. Thanks for that.
Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?
Surprising relevant
From Wikipedia:
Feed (2002) is a young adult science fiction novel written by M. T. (Matthew Tobin) Anderson. The novel focuses on issues such as corporate power, consumerism, information technology, data mining, and environmental decay, occasionally from a sardonic perspective. The novel depicts American society's descent into a culture that revolves entirely around advertising and corporate gain from the perspective of an American teenager and his friends.
http://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T...
Decades ago -- who was it who wrote that short story?
The only place anyone could hide from the damn ads was in prison, and the narrator's grandmother did something to get locked away, and when she explained why, the narrator thought, hmmmm, I bet I could sell ads into the prisons ...
At least with the prior art Google can't patent the idea.
Reminds me of Idiocracy, Robocop, and a number of other films featuring dystopian futures.
Who said you couldn't make money from a thermostat that sets I you kitchen. Google is changing our way of thinking. Soon we will have direct on-demand postman in every local city.
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I purchased my Nest thermostat before the Google buyout, and I've been quite happy with it to this point. I would like to make it clear though, that this device is MY property and not Google's.
DO NOT ATTEMPT to spam me through my thermostat. The first time this happens, I will demand to return my thermostat for a full refund, and if that refund is not forthcoming, I will be the named plaintiff in a class action to compel Google to either cease and desist all advertising on devices I own, or remit a full refund of my original purchase price.
I do NOT consent to spamming, ever.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Thanks.
Think about what their thought process might mean for some Android devices:
Before we establish your call, you must watch a 30 second Ad. Only after the first 10 seconds will you be able to skip. You can skip every 20 Ads.
Just look what happened to YouTube.
If they think I'm connecting my fridge to the internet they can go fuck themselves. Seriously? A fridge is just a heat pump, anything more is creature feep and (as presumably more expensive, prone to breaking and irritating) to be deplored.
I really think consumers should own their own behavioral data / preferences. I'll agree to put smart devices in my house if I control the data, I control who I give that data to, and I would only give that data out if it benefited me.
Think about it. Maybe a national grocery store chain or two and GE want to get together and offer a subsidised smart fridge. I agree to let them monetize my spending habits and food preferences in exchange for the fridge being subsidised somewhat and targeted discounts for what I like to buy.
Didn't Don Lapre attempt this business model and things turned out badly for him? Google should heed this... or just admit they are a bunch of scam-artists.
then Google can start collecting information on how often I open my fridge and then cross reference that with information from the supermarket (captured on those "loyalty" cards) that tells them the types of food I buy. From that they will determine that my diet is too high in trans fats and immediately notify every insurance company on earth to NOT sell me an insurance policy because of my poor dietary habits.
Do no evil my ass. I don't trust any of those Google pricks with my information. Same goes for Facebook.
Are you sure they have overlooked this? I think the words "google" and "car" and "driver" have been used in a lot of sentences over the last few years, especially with the word "driver" modified.
Make no mistake, there really is a vision here, and it's pretty damn clever (even if it's also insideous and horrible). Outside of dense areas with usable public transportation, a lot of "eye hours" are being "wasted" every day. Google is able to fund work on self-driving-car development, precisely because claiming this resource will be so much like finding the holy grail.
Human: "Take me to Joe's Brewpub."
Car: "Ok, here we go. By the way, Fred's Brewpub is also nearby and they have a new Imperial Red Ale that has received 14 positive reviews in the last 4 days. Would you like to g--"
Human: "Take me to Fred's."
Google: "Dear Fred, one conversion. That'll be a dollar, please."
Joe: "Dear Google, I would like to place an ad."
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You know, it depresses me enough what we have to hack our phones to remove crappy "features" (disabled OS functions, bloatware) we don't want.
I for one simply cannot wait to do the same to my new car/refrigerator/thermostat. In the meantime, one alternate plan that's worked very well so far is to not buy any new cars or refrigerators or $200 learning thermostats.
Go to internet, push "shop" button and see the pretty Ads when your ready to shop. Advertisers are like the guys (trade name unknown) that used to club baby seals up north, it's just a job because: "I'm not evil". We hate you, really and truly, Bill Hicks was right, go kill yourself. What do they all think we sit around all day saying, "I haven't shopped since noon, I gotta buy something quick?"
Not logging until Beta dies.
"advertising" used to be about "advertising" the existence of a product or service. After all, how would I know that something's for sale without it being advertised?
But really, I think we've fallen far far away from that. I know that laundry detergent exists. I know where to find laundry detergent too. If you want to advertise your detergent in the aisle at the store, that'd be great. But I really don't need you to yell your detergent brand at me when I'm at home. I'm not going to suddenly get up and go buy even more detergent.
I'm not going to have ads on my fridge. Aside from buying commercial-grade fridges that don't even have water dispensers, let alone lcd screens, I do buy my fair share of duct tape -- for which I've never seen an ad. Actually, I buy Gorilla tape -- for which I've also never seen an ad. Both tapes do a great job of covering up LCD screens.
But more than anything, this is what confuses me. I'm not going to spend any more money. I simply don't have any more money to spend. It's not like more ads will convince me to buy more of anything. So aside from shifting my brand loyalty from one brand of printer paper to another, I really just don't see the point.
Amazing how quickly a company can go from loved to absolutely hated.
I think part of this stems from failure to recognize Google as just another advertising company.
There is always way to glue a carton over the advert screen and cut loudspeaker out.
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And I envision a time when it will be necessary to have a 'Do Not Advertise' registry with the government to protect us from assholes like you Google. I'm with the rest of them go ahead Google put your freaking ads all over our house -- I freaking dare you to. I'll abandon everything about your company, as a matter of fact since that comment to the SEC pissed me off so much I'm going to delete Chrome right after I finish this tirade. I encourage everybody else to do the same as a show of solidarity. Screw Chrome
I have a "new" business for the future, sell things without advertising at a higher price.
"Oh, you don't the Google refrigerator, it doesn't let you open the door for beer until you have watched 30 seconds of beer commercials. You want this model, sure it's a bit more expensive but there's no eye tracking and you'll avoid all the malware associated with the Google model."
"Buy this thermostat, it lets you change the temperature without having to listen to beer commercials."
By email (after he emailed 1st) If "Almost All Ads Blocked" can do these things:
1.) Blocking out malware/malscripted sites (not just adbanners with bad code)
2.) Blocking out Known sites-servers/hosts-domains that are known to serve up malware (especially "fastflux" types, the predominant design that uses host-domain names vs. IP addresses (far easier to 'kill' in the latter is why)).
3.) Blocking out Bogus DNS servers malware makers use (via fastflux + rogue DNS servers).
4.) Blocking out Botnet C&C servers.
5.) Blocking out known PHISHERS.
6.) Blocking out TRACKERS.
7.) Blocking out SPAMMERS.
8.) Getting you back speed/bandwidth you paid for by blocking out adbanners + hardcoding in your favorite sites (faster than remote DNS server resolution).
9.) Added reliability (vs. downed or misdirect/poisoned DNS servers - since most are NOT patched vs. the Kaminsky flaw).
10.) Added "anonymity" (to an extent, vs. DNS request logs).
11.) The ability to bypass DNSBL's (DNS block lists you may not agree with).
12.) Truly UNIVERSAL PROTECTION (since any OS, even on smartphones, usually has a BSD derived IP stack & hosts 99.999% of the time).
13.) Faster & MORE EFFICIENT operation vs. browser plugins
14.) Custom hosts files work on ANY & ALL webbound apps (browser plugins do not).
15.) Custom hosts files offer a better, faster, more efficient way, & safer way to surf the web & are COMPLETELY controlled by the end-user of them WITHOUT having to know regular expressions.
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* Can you tell me WHY he refuses to reply?
(I know why - he knows that if he admits hosts are more versatile, superior, & efficient than AdBlock - he's done: ClarityRay's going to assure that anyhow for him...)
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P.S.=> After all - that's an honest question!
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1. I will NOT be buying an appliance that sells/gives my info to anyone else
2. I will NOT be buying an "ad supported" Appliance
3. By the time this happens $30 tablets will be available which can host my shopping list , and they won't have ads on them
4 Any Appliance that starts "phone home" behaviour will be removed from the net
5 Any Appliance that starts "Phone home" behaviour will see the that IP block fire walled
6 I will encourage everyone I know to do the same, and if need be help them kill the adverts/spying
Google, you are about as safe a Buggy Whip makers, you are a one trick pony - adverts.
The more adverts you push the less value each has, to try and keep the revenue up you will push more ads, thus lowering their value even more.
There are so many ads now that people are becoming immune , its like living near a railway line, after a while you stop hearing the trains.
There is also growing push back from consumers, we don't like being spied on!
There is also a growing number of specialty search sites where you can compare prices from multiple vendors all at once, e.g. travel sites, and once you start using them, you book mark them and don't need to go near google to find them again.
When (not if) will Samsung breakaway with their version of Android.... perhaps they will even start selling it/ giving it away to other 3rd party phone makers....
each of these comes with some gesture recognition hardware :)
To me, when I read things like this, I think about what this really says about our society and the current state of our civilization.
Sure, I guess you could find some advertising going back to the stone age, but really, advertising didn't become the monstrosity it is until the last 60 years or so. And in the last 15, via the internet, it has just exploded.
Ads, ads everywhere and not a thought to think
The pedaling of goods and services, the saturation of commerce and advertising, however you want to analyze this, it is wrong, and it's not what the intelligence and creativity of the human race was meant for.
Looking back on this time, historians and others will cringe...
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Anonymous Coward foresees adblock, noscript and other privacy guarding items on their refrigerator, thermostat and glasses.
I'll bet appliances with advertising won't pass muster with the European Union, but for some reason known only to Allah our government won't see anything wrong with it. I guess that's because our legislators are all so freaking corrupt and figure it will be another way to line their pockets.
It's ads all the way down.
You've got milk... and mail.
Google did the entire world a HUGELY nice thing with Google Search. For the first time, humans were able to find the world's information.
Remember the abusive Hotmail? Gmail is far better than any other email service, in my opinion.
In the beginning, Google was not so adversarial to customers. In the beginning, Google was the best at what it did.
I've thought about and studied the phenomenon of companies slowly degrading for decades. Hewlett-Packard was already going downhill in the 1970s; the company was making data acquisition hardware that had an obviously unfinished design.
Fairchild Semiconductor was, at one time, the best manufacturer of transistors. The company began selling power transistors with epoxy casing. The epoxy degraded the transistors. It seemed that Fairchild never recovered.
Tektronix was a great company at one time; everybody in the tech world was impressed with Tektronix oscilloscopes. I suppose the good managers decided to move to other efforts. One problem was that Tektronix was not prepared for lower-cost competitors.
More recently, Adobe seems to me to be on a long downhill slide; the PDF file formats were a gift to the world. Now Adobe seems to me to be becoming more and more aggressive toward its customers.
Jamie Dimon of Chase Bank seems to me to be becoming tired of being CEO and making huge management mistakes for which there have been multi-billion dollar fines.
Not just no: fuck no.
"In a hierarchy every employee will rise to his level of incompetence". The Peter Principle
While I hate the idea of ads on my refrigerator too, don't we already have that? My fridge and stove have "LG" stamped on them, my car has chrome logos all over it, pretty much everything I own basically carries an ad on it already! It just isn't animated yet.
Like hell I will be seeing ads on my appliances. I will either avoid those appliances or disable them via network magic.
"Buy 2 Truman Show DVD's, and get one freeee!"
Table-ized A.I.
I foresee Google executives being burned at the stake by a mob of people driven mad by having no escape from the constant advertising.
Let's hope both I and Google are wrong about what we foresee.
Oh, great. Next thing you know, you'll be paying extra for absolutely worthless components added to appliances, just so it can sell you more junk. You'll end up buying a refrigerator with built-in temperature and humidity sensors. Why? Just so your fridge can tell you you need to buy a humidifier every winter, and try to get you to buy a central air conditioner every summer day you walk into the kitchen. Temp sensor go bad? Oh, don't worry--if you don't fix it, it'll just bug you that you need to get a new furnace every winter day until you get it fixed.
Google, fuck you. And no thanks, you keep your ads away from my fucking appliances.
...NOT!
Not in my house.
An effective "democracy" creates the illusion the people have a say in their government.
Right. A good example is that in the Android "ice cream sandwich" release, Google deliberately broke on-phone voice dialing. Now, to get hands-free dialing, you have to use Google's voice search service, which logs everything you do for ad purposes. It also won't work if you have poor data connectivity but good voice connectivity, which is common when driving. Google's voice search service assumes the user is looking at the screen, which defeats the whole point of Bluetooth headsets.
So there's Google, pulling an LG.
there sure are a bunch of funny mother fuckers here for such a serious topic. Go ahead. Laugh. Make fun. We are killing ourselves and/or allowing ourselves to be killed. Poison in our food? Check. Unbelievably unhealthy food? Check. Being conditioned by media on what to do, how to live, what to think ? Check. Sniveling like a bunch of whiny little bitches every time 0.000001% of us is killed by a terrorist? Check. Yeah, I'm all over tonight.
"...would you be willing to receive a brand new $2000 frig/freezer for free IF it showed ads on it?" The first thing I would do is break out the snips, torx, phillips and go to town on that bad boy.
When I bought my Note 3 (off contract) the first thing I did was flash a new ROM. Screw the warranty. I want to control my device. MINE. Fuck them and that bitch ass pony that thinks its a horse they rode in on.
I cut my cable TV because I refuse to have ads piped into my home to fuck up my son. He's only 7 for Christ's sake. Fight club was right. When my son asked me what those signs say (billboards), I told him that people are trying to get us to buy stuff we don't need to impress people we don't care about. He responded "That's kinda dumb". Ah, the wisdom of kids.
When my son was 5 in preschool he told me that he and his friends were playing Power Rangers. Since we don't have cable or anything Power Rangers related I asked him what a Power Ranger is. He said "I don't know but they wanted to play. It was kinda like chase."
Electricity bill.
google foresees wrongly...
Like the title says, is Google turning into Facebook? Google is starting to overreach now, people won't stand for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Want to give me a free refrigerator, subsidized by ads? Sure! Other than that, you won't be getting my business if you want to put ads on your refrigerator. Take it or leave it.
Fuck "smart" devices (which will be programmed to the abysmally low standards of much current technology so will fail horribly) fuck advertisements and fuck Google.
'nuff said really.
If you have ads on your fridge.. and it runs android... You'd have apps, right? But an app on a fridge - wouldn't it keep freezing? :O
If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation?
Would you like me to order some cigarettes and a pregnancy test for you?
Perhaps I'm unworldly, but WTF have cigarettes got to do with sex? Am I missing something? Unless it is what a turn-off they are, so they act as a contraceptive.
I would mod you up if I weren't only a lurker. Excellent reference.
Life is Art with a time lag.
Actually, We Have Been Warned. But, who cares, right? And I thought the AI footwear/toaster sketches on Red Dwarf were really entertaining.
Backup : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Merchants
- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-space-merchants-frederik-pohl/1116820048?ean=9780312749514
There was something about train windows vibrating ads directly into passanger's heads?
Would anyone buy these devices that have no real need for network access anyway?
Have people gotten so stupid and lazy they can't open the fridge and look to see if they need milk or eggs?
Do you fuss over the settings on your thermostat so often that you'd ever actually see any ads that appear there?
Why would you want glasses that obscure your vision with "ads"?
Most people are sick to death of ads and hate advertisers.
Die already. If your home is wired for internet access, you already have the means to research new products without needing ads forced at you from every direction.