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....Google?
"...In October, it began testing Google Trusted Stores, which verifies e-commerce sites as trusted retailers, based on shipping and customer service. Google promises to refund the purchase price or replace items for shoppers dissatisfied with a trusted store’s service. And with Google Wallet, people can pay for items online or offline with their phones.
Perhaps Google’s biggest hurdle in competing with companies like Amazon and Apple in becoming a commerce business is collecting credit card numbers, which enables quick purchases of things as diverse as digital music and offline goods. Apple has said in the past that it has more than 225 million credit card numbers, and Amazon has the credit card information of tens of millions of customers.
“Privacy concerns notwithstanding, the best way to target a consumer with relevant offers is based on their buying behavior and purchase history,” Mr. Best (of Mercent, an online advertising firm) said. “That’s another huge strategic advantage for Google to participate in the transaction.”
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"You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
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Who knew that the best, most willing agents of the Brother's thought police would turn out to be.....
Us.
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And if you'd like to read the story of Orwell writing the story as, essentially, the last man in Europe, check this out.......
7 comments:
RossK ... hahaha ... 20 years ago when i spoke of things like this, i was quickly dismissed as a 'conspiracy theorist'
Correct me if I'm wrong but....
Isn't gravity still a 'theory'?
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Good point. BUT ... too many people hummed and hawed and shook their head in disbelief for too long and now its too late to do anything about it -- yup, looks like gravity is here to stay
People, generally speaking, love, on a deeply unimaginable level, being sold all manner of, mostly, unneeded crap. It would probably be true to suggest that a human being who has not made such purchases of stuff they neither needed nor wanted is not human at all. Luckily, what we buy is not what we are.
Fair enough Beer--
But, clearly, it is increasingly what they think we are.
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It may be increasingly what they think they are but what they think they are is not what they think they are. We are all, those of us who think we are what we consume, Naked Emperors. The dangers of such shallow deception is clear: our modern world heaving with revolt.
Ahhhh...I'm gettin' it now.
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