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title: Future of Advertising and Information Services
date: 2021-10-21
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author: Cincinnatus
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## Marshall McLuhan lays it out in 1966

A wonderful look into the future, from the past.

https://paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/11/marshall-mcluhan-on-the-future-of-ads-and-the-internet

One of the insights here is the idea that we *enjoy* being manipulated, being advertised to because the advertising itself is the beginning of the fulfillment of our desire for an object.