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Originally Posted by cryptocoryne
No matter what shiny new tech geegaw you dream up, it ends up sounding like a Zeppelin Airline Fleet in retrospect.
However, I dare to hope that the conformity and lack of privacy (Corporations and FSB/GCHQ/NSA don't love you. Really.) of social media and e-Shops will anger people to the point where they just start turning off and disconnecting. I see the internet as a spent force, like network TV: it will become the playground of home shopping, religious extremists, and snake oil salesmen.
We need something new or perhaps something old.
Most likely, though, we're gonna nuke ourselves by accident and there won't be any (e)readers.
EDIT: I won't feel better if we nuke ourselves intentionally.  |
Would you care to point to a time in the history of TV or even radio wasn't the playground of salesmen?
For reference, read Betty White's books. They have always sold things on TV.
Do you really think the Price is Right is not just an hour long commercial?
As to the religious: broadcast TV is required to do so many hours of public service to keep their license. Here they tend to pick Sunday mornings.
The home shopping is not new either, even as a kid I remember send just $4.99+$1.99 shipping and handling to PO Box 12345, Somewhere California to get the latest Ronco product.