Although Mann's wearable computer system provides reams of data when he asks for it, it can also block the world out with what Mann calls "diminished reality." This AR software can replace billboards, street signs, and ads on buses with stored digital images of waterfalls and other natural scenes.
We might get an escalation of the spyware-adblocker war.
I bet there are a lot of links out there that connects the word "IRIX" and a link to sgi. That's geekstuff, plentiful on the net.
And I guess the number of web pages on the subject of the joys of smoking, complete with links to Marlboro, is very small. Perhaps some sponsorship links here and there.
However, remember when "more evil than satan himself" and other similar phrases made Google to point to Microsoft? They clean up such messes from time to time. But I would say that those are extreme cases.
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We might get an escalation of the spyware-adblocker war.
And I guess the number of web pages on the subject of the joys of smoking, complete with links to Marlboro, is very small. Perhaps some sponsorship links here and there.
However, remember when "more evil than satan himself" and other similar phrases made Google to point to Microsoft? They clean up such messes from time to time. But I would say that those are extreme cases.
In short, coincidense, yes I think so.