Thanks to Lenore for alerting me to this AT&T video, It Says, which I am adding to my short list of brilliant if nefarious ads which promote technology as benevolent, empowering, and totally embedded (or about to be, or should be) in our day-to-day lives and key rituals--
--here represented by bedtime, driving, shopping, and dating, and culminating in getting married!
Anyone else uncomfortable with this representation or have comments?
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Why must it be seen as something necessarily bad? New 'rituals' have been replacing other, older ones for thousands of years now. TV might have been seen in the 50s in the same light of suspicion and that embedding sth as foreign as that was tragic and dangerous, but fighting change is like trying to hold on to water. And anw the only way for things to stay the same is for them to change.
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