The Creepy, Creepy Future of Marketing: "FREE Implant surgery with purchase!"
The iphone is being advertised an awful lot. I don't own a cellphone because I don't like them. The iphone freaks me out. My stance on cell phones is this: you pay money so that you have no solitude. You're never alone when you have a cell phone, which I'm sure is a comfort to some but not to me, since I don't substitute comm-tech for actual human interaction. Cybernetics, as you can guess from previous posts, freak me out. The concept freaks me out. I'm not entirely comfortable relying on a car for transport, but I deal with it. The iphone, by design, appears to demand human manipulation to a greater extent than any other device of its kind. Now, I made a post before about the marketing of products and how most advertising's only real point is to make want things you don't need. As electronics become more and more personalized to their user, and these devices become more and more complex (the iphone knows how you are holding it) how long do you thi...