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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barcode" data-source="post: 844977" data-attributes="member: 3165">Did any of you notice the "future of advertising" theme in Minority Report?  It was an interesting vision.Bottom line is that American culture, and I would imaging English culture or any other generally wealthy culture fundamentally based on commerce, is all about getting people to want (and then buy) crap they don't need.  If you are going to proceed from such a wasteful and spiritually bankrupt basis, is the path that you take really that important?  Why are popups any more evil than spam, junk mail, commercials at the beginning of movies, product placements in movies, telemarketing, commercials on TV, corporate names on stadiums, ads in magazines, circulars in newspapers, billboards in front of pine trees, or the millions of other ugly, invasive and coercive propaganda that begin to assail you the moment you wake up in the morning?Personally, I love popups for finally (for one small subset of the population) going too far.  Unfortunately, the reaction/backlash seems to be focused on the one medium, rather than against the fundamental principle on which it is based.  I had a similar reaction when legislation went in to limit telemarketing.  Why is one method of unwanted invasion prosecuted where other sacred cows (e.g. junk mail) are protected, even subsidized, as "good business"?I like living in the modern world.  I'm no Luddite.  I'm not even a Communist.  But man, I wish there were some way of keeping these advertising guys out of my face, completely.</blockquote>

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