“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.” PeopleWantedEconomyCenturyNeededAdvertisingNineteenth Century Book:The affluent society Source: The affluent society
“At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.” PeopleIfsGivingWellsKindStillsSelfProblemTurnsSocialEconomyCenturyInformationCapitalismAdvertisingMaking MoneyWinnerContractsGoogleFormal21st CenturySustainingSocial Contract Author:Jaron Lanier
“The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.” TodayCenturyAdvertisingManifestationAgencyPeculiarInsecureTwentieth CenturyAdvertising AgenciesAmerican BusinessBusiness LifeBrash Book:Past imperfect Source: Past imperfect
“If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.” IfsYearsWellsHas BeensDoneMightEyeUniverseSleepForgetAttentionBreakWeekCenturyThousandDiseaseGratefulCreditAdvertisingHis EyesThousand YearsRapturePulpitNever SleepWorking For God Author:Mark Twain