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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darin Sunley<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] what the hell was i thinking?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…Sometimes [ok, always!] I worry about this civilization. "Advertising company wants to build mind-reading machine so they can charge a premium rate for extremely targeted advertising" …<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Some of you internet hipsters please offer a take on this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Last spring, I was with my family on a road trip. We have a mobile hotspot on my phone; my son was using it to do some internet game. We stopped for fuel at the Columbia River Gorge where they have installed all those wind turbines. At the fuel stop, I noticed the zipper had broken on my hoodie, and asked my bride if it was easily fixable, or perhaps I would just buy a new one, since hoodies don’t cost much. At that same gas stop, I pointed out the wind turbines and explained to my son how they work.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We drove on to our campground. I logged on to the internet. The side panels of my sites were filled with advertisements which they always are, but these were for… hoodies and wind turbine parts.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t recall ever, before or since, getting advertisements for wind turbine parts. I might have at some point gotten advertisements for hoodies and not noticed. But those wind turbine parts caught my attention.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Could it be there is something on that phone listening, doing speech to text and marketing to me already?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If so, oh that is so damn creepy wicked cool, I am really really pissed I didn’t think of it first.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>