The Zana Zen

I just had an enlightenment!

How far would all those companies go for marketing? How the future looks like?

The thing about commercials is that they “control the herd” in some way. Commercials are everywhere, in any place and they control your mind eventually that you start thinking that if you’ll follow, you will take part in this big mainstream.

50 years ago, the situation wasn’t so provocative like it is on these days. Every couple of years someone decides to be provocative to promote his business, and he drags everybody into a new level of “allowed provocativeness”, it happen in small doses (or else it wouldn’t work), so that it creates a linear line, and the end can be seen already. Today, sexy women sells you almost everything, even math books.

As I see it, future marketing will be based on sex, and I mean it in the full meaning of the word, porn if you would like. Eager people that want to get rich will strive humanity closer and closer to this point. Future commercials will try so hard to stand-out because there would be just too many of them that turning into sex will be inevitable.

Let’s hope that it will happen fast enough for us to enjoy it

We all know how the world wide web was before google. Search engines weren’t accurate and far away from simple. You had all those portals like Yahoo, Lycos, etc… The HotBot search engine did a nice jump and provided a simple interface, but as I remember, it was extremely slow and it would get stuck sometimes.

Then came Google with a great solution that gave you exactly what you wanted. It was so accurate and good that it revived the world wide web. A couple of years ago google added contextual ads to the search results, you know these as the AdWords and the AdSense services. The thing is that since then, it evolved and now the situation is terribly worse. All your search results are contolled by Google textual ads, image ads and the latest yet to come, video ads.

The top ranking websites are almost alwalys made by people that provides less info and put more ads at their websites. This is because they make money, so they will promote it hard as they can. Every thing is so well commercialized, that the info you need to find is like a drop in the sea.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html
Dilbert’s creator regains the ability to speak.

My thoughts about this:

It’s so amazing that we can control ourself in such a way. If you’ll read what he wrote, you’ll see that he regained his voice because he reasoned with him knowing about evolution, genetics and the ability of organ creatures to adapt (so he owes darwin in some way).

To think about it, millions of years of evolution evolved a more evolvable mechanism.
I don’t know if someone else have made this claim before me. This is how I see it.