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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."
...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.
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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Oh, there's so, so much further that advertising can go:
http://www.lightspeedmagazine....
When my daughter was young, we had a little exercise. During the commercials I would ask her "What is it you think they want from you? How are they trying to convince you? Do you think they're lying?" In time, that was the way she looked at all of them. Programmed cynicism.