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The original was posted on /r/aboringdystopia by /u/lowen0005 on 2023-10-03 03:28:53.
Anyone who's played Cyberpunk 2077 might remember the big ads projected into the sky above the city. It adds a really cool dystopian atmosphere to the game.
In real life it would be a nightmare come true.
Yeah, marketing people are psychopaths. Normal people see Cyberpunk 2077 and think dystopia. Marketing people think "cool idea, let's make it real!"
It's not theoretical, look up Candy Crush New York.
They can start going all out with regular ad programming over tier 1 cities many times each day almost as soon as they find themselves able to get away with it.
It's will be regular within a few years if we let it.
If we could get cybernetic implants I'd take it. Too bad the only thing we'll get is higher rent, lower pay, and ads in the sky.
The only thing projected in the sky can only be the bat signal. That's the rule
It’s never too early to be an eco-terrorist
This is the first time I've seen the original tweet without Johnny Silverhand
Full terrorist might be a bit much, but I wouldn't be opposed to punching holes in packaging of the advertised products.
If the trend caught on at a large enough scale to just mildly vandalize space-billboard products, that shit would stop in a hurry.
...hell we should do that with regular billboards too - gimme my scenery back!
Full terrorist might be a bit much
I disagree. A society that sells the night sky to private interest deserves to burn.
......on second thought... yeah.
Billboards really ought to be illegal.
And now we have mega led tv billboards that flash their content blindingly in your eyes from miles away, yay!
I don't understand the increasingly aggressive ads. When I see a company advertising heavily I get sketched out and assume they have subpar product.
If these are drones and someone does this irl I'm going to shoot them down
So what do you think is going on in the prime universe?
Harambe sires an offspring. Covid was contained, however significant changes in social structures happened so that cross species viruses have a tougher time evolving. Mitch McConnell shat himself on the senate floor, then proclaimed his love for flamin' hot cheetoes, then passes away. Elon Musk takes a ride on Space X, it suffers a malfunction & he burns up on reentry. Russia and China start a war, but both armies are the equivalent of an Ikea designed tank. All offensive and defensive maneuvers are so bad there are literally thousands of scholars writing doctorate thesis on them. Beer cures cancer. Universal pay is implemented worldwide, Amazon goes bankrupt. Tipping culture in the US ends. Nestlé board of trustees and executive committee are rounded up and hunted for sport by Tankies...capitalists tune in to the reality based tv show and place enough bets to wipe out world debt. Argentina finally has a sound financial footing, a robust economy, and bright future producing most of the worlds green energy needs. World temperatures stabilize and start trending towards normal as most automobiles, private jets, tankers and ocean liners are either converted to green power or scrapped. People have a healthy relationship with social media.
...fuck
Back propagating simulations of other possible less utopian courses reality could have taken within which a bunch of people are complaining about how much things suck and wondering what is happening in the prime reality.
This is such an old repost I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet
If they're some sort of holograms they wouldn't last a week. And I mean hackers making them into Friendly Windmills and the sort.
Many people like to say that if they had a time machine they would go back and kill Hitler or some other valiant act of heroism that would prevent the death of millions.
Yet when faced with the real possibility of killing (or even just properly holding accountable - removal from society, redistribution of resources of) an individual now, who is already responsible for millions of deaths by virtue of withholding resources alone, never mind the active oppression and exploitation of billions that go in to maintaining the system that allows them their power, people suddenly become squeamish.
But not even at the idea of them doing it, but at the idea of anyone doing it (to the point of actively opposing it), and that's just so fucking frustrating, that people can't see the glaringly obvious dictators "of tomorrow", who already literally control everything and are actively getting away with a lot shit directly out of the fascist playbook today, how anyone can still deny it to themselves just blows my mind.
We're never going to get a better future as long as so many people refuse to accept that we're never going to be given it by those living the high life off of our backs.
The difference is that I can look up a moment in history when Hitler was vulnerable and then kill him with zero consequences.
There would be a lot of consequences for killing anyone today, and it'd be really hard to kill anyone that matters.
This is such a stupid idea on so many levels but mostly because it's functionally impossible. The amount of satellites that would need to be launched in order to be able to form a visible image from the surface of the Earth would be prohibitively expensive and complicated to organise. They would all crash into each other within about 15 minutes - because orbits are inherently chaotic, and because of the ultra low altitude they'd have to maintain to make it remotely visible, they would burn up in the atmosphere almost instantly.
Basically no one with even a high school level education is actually proposing this.
This is basically just rage bate.
Wouldn't they be more likely to use drones than satellites?
Yeah, and we already have drone lightshows
It would especially be effective in cities, with a high density of people. And the base cost would not be that large compared to normal advertising spots, which already go for a lot of money.
Basically, if it was legal, it would have already been done.
Who said anything about satellites? That looks more like bat-signal-style projections against the clouds
How was the original proposal supposed to work? The only space add concepts I've seen have been a camera recording a screen with adds in space, essentially using the earth as a fancy background.
I live in the city, so I never see stars anyway. I say bring on the Blade Runner vibes!
EDIT: Sorry if I offended anyone with a little joke. I'll stop trying to be funny.
They should project the night sky into city skies. As long as it doesn't add significantly to light pollution, I wouldn't be suprised if that would be good for people's mental health
i mean we could also just institute light pollution measures like many places worldwide already have, but i guess that's not as cool
I had the very same gut response as Lauren.
Shotguns ftw
i remember reading about this idea on the paper in the 80s. i think the loggistics of launching such a large structure to orbit, just achieve bad PR would be have terrible ROI
I imagine if done irl it wouldn't be one solid space structure, but instead something like a ground based projector operating on cloudy nights, projecting an ad into the bottom of the cloud layer, or if actually in space, an array of satellites that each act as a "pixel", with a laser that they can shine at a city or location that they want the ad visible from.
No need to launch anything, just use a powerful projector aimed at the cloud layer.
Like the Bat signal.