advertising

[flykiller]

elsewhere we read:

then you need to deal with all of those pop up advertisements the whole time you are in jump space.

heh. not just then. recall the opening scene in cowboy bebop the movie when they're coming into port and space is filled with all those "roadside" holo advertisements.

when I go to my bank we're herded into this little customer service line where we wait for up to half an hour to see a teller. the corral is surrounded by panel advertisements filled with pictures of happy smiling (precisely diverse) people wielding their plastic cards or playing with their new toys they purchased with their plastic cards. overhead are tv's quietly beaming visual and auditory psychological suggestions (designed by professional psychologists and psychiatrists and other mental/psychic engineers) to buy buy buy spend spend spend, because you deserve your rewards ("earn 3% back on groceries!"), voiced by professional actors emoting sticky voices that induce physiological reactions such as drooling and hunger in the listeners. and it's all timed and synchronized to produce maximum disruption in normal human thought patterns so it's impossible to ignore, it constantly intrudes and breaks in non-stop.

can you imagine what the advertising environment will be like in a traveller setting?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/04/w...ere-campaigns-try-to-read-your-mind.html?_r=0

 

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[flykiller]

Sword Worlds women

that would tie in very nicely with the recent slavery thread. and when I was doing the imperial culture thread the thought never occurred to me but it would be an obvious feature, native or exported, for some of those high population rockball worlds, especially louzy.

 

[salochin999]

can you imagine what the advertising environment will be like in a traveller setting?

imtu a lot of the small pop worlds are specifically colonized by people who are trying to get away from all that

 

[flykiller]

might explain quite a few of the low tech worlds - it's deliberate ....

 

[Lycanorukke]

heh. not just then. recall the opening scene in cowboy bebop the movie when they're coming into port and space is filled with all those "roadside" holo advertisements.

Or like in mass effect 2 where the 'advertising holo-pillars' scan your ID and 'tailors' an advertisment to you. With amusing results when the database is not quite reliable.

"Commander shepherd, you've recently been dead, have you considered a Asari fine burial robe?
"Commander Shepherd, station records show you made only <bzzt> Error. Zero credits <bzzt> last cycle.

It would make it interesting to discreetly follow someone when a holo-pillar is shouting your name at you.

imtu a lot of the small pop worlds are specifically colonized by people who are trying to get away from all that

Or they believe the blimp floating over head with the TV screen.

"A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure... .."

 

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