Spike at Brains on Fire blog shares this tidbit:
...advertisers – faced with the fact that the general public is ignoring their intrusive messages – are becoming even more intrusive.
“Marketers around the world are using innovative audio technology that sends sound in a narrow beam, just like light, making it possible to direct messages right into consumers’ ears while they shop or sit in waiting rooms.”
It's from an article titled The Marketers Have Your Ear. As a kid I remember reading how advertisers were banned from submitting subliminal advertising messages. Embedding them so to speak in a movie reel...to generate a rush on popcorn was always the example given... back in the day.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, thanks to the wonders of modern technology we have....advertising messages that no one wants and no one but you and your dog Spot can hear ....seemingly inside your heads and emanating from...nowhere, everywhere, the wall beside you.
I guess no one's asked the advertiser why the public doesn't want to see their messages.
Maybe if they answered THAT then they wouldn't need to sneak messages inside our head. Or our dogs head. Who knows...? Woof. If you notice a rush of people buying dog food, well then you know.
Maybe if these advertisers and device creators took oh, say a 10th of their budget for Doctor Science/Doctor Who-type messaging systems instead invested those dollars into creating a product their customers wanted...their customers would tell them where and how they'd want a message delivered to them.
Yeah, Zane, but who can make a career out of listening to the customer and doing what they ask? Can you put that on your resume'?
No you need something...outlandish like:
successfully developed neurotransmitter/sub-audio level advertising system that insures unwilling purchases of corporate products were foisted on consumers without their ability to stop, look away, or ignore our messages.
High rates of product return for these unwitting purchases were blocked using the same technology.
The next iteration would include a means to insure repeat purchases.
Currently in discussion with unnamed military agency for application of device in worldwide markets for behavior modification of a more profound nature.
And if world dominion isn't in the long-term plans for said brilliant advertisers, then they could foist their eyes upon the counseling industry. Imagine the possible surge, so to speak, in clients seeking help from voices in their head urging them to buy say...dog food...when they don't have a dog!
Sky's the limit, people. Now that I'm thinking about it being able to manipulate people like you would pixels on your screen isn't so bad, really. That's what my inner voice is telling me....Yours will too. Just lean over here and listen....
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