Tag Archives: Bruce Sterling

The Future Is Coming: How advertising and the digital data trail will purify us of our love for the past and kill off nostalgia

by Josh Kimball Digitally enabled by easily accessible evocations of their past, consumers’ very memories are now being relentlessly commoditized. Images of our weddings and graduations, memories of kids’ births and grandparents’ faces now get snugly wrapped by ads for automobiles and toothpaste. The commercialization of our personal and collective pasts has significant cultural and […]

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