Was dozing in front of the television a few nights ago and opened up my eyes to see my brother (Chris) sitting at a table with some other people in an advert for something. Of course it wasn't him, but in my drowsy state it was him.
So, this got me thinking about where things could and maybe will go in the world of "The Cloud" and IoT.
Imagine all of your personal devices interconnected, storing all your stuff in the cloud, family pictures, movies, purchasing history, books, social media preferences. Pretty easy to imagine, right?
Now add a new generation of smart televisions to the mix. (Smart televisions are already connected to the internet) This new generation will find your cloud data and inspect everything, finding and categorizing everything it finds. Oh look, here's some pictures of the same guy, and he's in a movie with sound too. The smart television will connect to an advertising assist service and upload all data it found on this guy. The service will build a "virtual guy", capable of doing and saying anything an advertiser plugs into it, and drops the virtual guy back down to your smart television.
Then, one night, make it dark and stormy, Wankels Widgits really wants to sell you one of their wonderful widgets, based on your shopping history. The wunderkids at Wankel digitally transfer a royalty fee to the advertising assist service to obtain a one-time use license, and then downloads the code to unlock and use the virtual guy's image and voice in an advert.
So there I would be, watching reruns of Lost, when the show breaks to Wankels Wonderful Widgets, starring my brother Chris, trying to sell me, and convincingly so, the Widget of my dreams. (Just Click on the Link Below to Purchase Now!)
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