Monday 14 August 2017

Exxon Telescreens

EP autos - Libertarian Car Talk:



The really top-drawer dystopian novels end up like news accounts that got published a couple of decades before the events they describe.



Orwell’s 1984 came to mid the other day as I rolled up to a pump at an Exxon station and found myself being pestered by a TeeVee built into the gas pump. It came to life – loudly – as soon as I fed my credit card into the reader. Pushy sales pitches masquerading – as online – as “content,” the euphemism for ads from which you will “learn” more as opposed to merely being the object of a sales pitch.



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