Oh my goodness, I’m listening to a cover of Lola by The Kinks (that repeatedly says “La la la lo-Lola,” in case you’re not familiar with it) when I saw your comment and username! What a neat coincidence.
Is your username choice a reference to that song, by any chance?
You might not know it, but catapults were originally invented to deliver ads across long distances. Only later was their usefulness for warfare discovered.
After the invention of the airship, catapults became obsolete for advertising. They continued to be used though in the trenches of World War I.
In modern times something similar happened with the atomic bomb, which was originally developed by the Mushroom Marketing Board to be a giant illuminated billboard in the sky. It was repurposed as a weapon after it was found to reduce, not increase, mushroom sales in neighborhoods where it was deployed.
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What a time to be alive. We are in an age where every new technology shall be seen as a way to produce more advertisements.
“How can this invention help us sell more sugar water?”
Oh my goodness, I’m listening to a cover of Lola by The Kinks (that repeatedly says “La la la lo-Lola,” in case you’re not familiar with it) when I saw your comment and username! What a neat coincidence.
Is your username choice a reference to that song, by any chance?
Wow, that is a coincidence. But nah I’ve never heard that song before lol
Welcome to the printing press
”BUY MORE JESUS!”
You might not know it, but catapults were originally invented to deliver ads across long distances. Only later was their usefulness for warfare discovered.
After the invention of the airship, catapults became obsolete for advertising. They continued to be used though in the trenches of World War I.
Pfft, catapults. A trebuchet can launch a 90kg advertisement over 300 meters.
“we have been trying to contact you about your car’s extended warranty”
In modern times something similar happened with the atomic bomb, which was originally developed by the Mushroom Marketing Board to be a giant illuminated billboard in the sky. It was repurposed as a weapon after it was found to reduce, not increase, mushroom sales in neighborhoods where it was deployed.
Can we go back to when every technology was just weaponized instead? No? This is somehow worse.