Wednesday, July 04, 2012

Tomorrow -- The Ad

Advertising is that grand enterprise through which The Present is interminably and profitably re-branded and then re-sold as The Future.

More Futurological Brickbats here.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:25 PM

    "Advertising is the organized effort to increase and intensify craving. [...] Spoken or printed, broadcast over the ether or on wood-pulp, all advertising copy has but one purpose -- to prevent the will from ever achieving silence."

    - Aldous Huxley

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  2. Anonymous12:45 PM

    Even more fun/world-destroying is when they repackage the past as the future.

    I'm suddenly hearing about flying cars again

    http://blog.modernmechanix.com/flying-auto/

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