Name This Cyberpunk Concept Plz

[Triskelion]

Well I was teaching a class today about business mobile phones, and found myself at a loss to describe the concept that, with increasing connectedness and tethering, as well as smart advertising displays, the future may be rife with targeted ads accosting us as we pass by, as well as other information.

I thought about it out loud, and one student, in broken but serendipitous English suggested Wave Pollution. I kind of like that term, a kind of digital wave effect. It might not be limited to pollution; it might be something more interwoven than that; a blending of digital shadow, targeted content, user preference, aesthetics, and human factors design/HCI.

Would anyone know any other terms or suggest some?
I am fond of Digital Wave myself.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Perhaps a Bubble concept - in that we are, by carrying personal electronic devices, surrounding ourselves in a bubble of information that would be read by targeted advertising displays - an Information Bubble (iBub) or a Digital Bubble.

 

[Triskelion]

^Cool. Reminds me of a certain Vulcan school in a recent movie.

 

[Goliath]

How about 'Hell'?

 

[Lonemagpie]

That type of targeted personal advertising in the streets is what you see in Minority Report

 

[trekkiedane]

That type of targeted personal advertising in the streets is what you see in Minority Report

You did mean read in Minority Report, didn't you?

 

[Luckyflux]

Well I was teaching a class today about business mobile phones, and found myself at a loss to describe the concept that, with increasing connectedness and tethering, as well as smart advertising displays, the future may be rife with targeted ads accosting us as we pass by, as well as other information.

I thought about it out loud, and one student, in broken but serendipitous English suggested Wave Pollution. I kind of like that term, a kind of digital wave effect. It might not be limited to pollution; it might be something more interwoven than that; a blending of digital shadow, targeted content, user preference, aesthetics, and human factors design/HCI.

Would anyone know any other terms or suggest some?
I am fond of Digital Wave myself.

That was the concept of the movie Johnny Mnemonic. There was a disease that was created by all of the radio waves and digital signals and that kind of stuff. It was killing people. Johnny was given the formula for the cure and had to get it to the lab before more bad stuff happened. I think Ice-T was in that too along with Keanu. I liked that movie.

 

[trekkiedane]

I liked that movie.

It is better than its reputation

 

[Mistral]

Check out Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End for a realistic portrayal of the future potential of what you are talking about.

 

[Australis]

I would have said something like cyberdarts or dartads, because those ads are thrown at you like darts - some hit the target, some don't. It's not about the receiver, it's about the delivery.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Cloudvertising?