Last week’s comic about the domestic use of aerial drones drew a number of interesting comments from readers. Here are a couple emails I received:
From Ogden Utah, TC writes:
The Aerial Drone comic hits particularly close to home! Our illustrious Mayor, Matthew Godfrey, has been trying to push the city council to approve a freaking blimp for surveillance purposes in our town. It’s really smart. I think he’s trying to cover some of his more sinister ideas by pushing this asinine idea out in front. I’m pretty sure our criminals run much faster than the blimp can fly.
TPM has more on that here.
Reader Bruce P, who I’m guessing is writing from abroad, who is writing from New Jersey, says:
In the second frame you have “Soon businesses jump on the bandwagon.” Here in my local Rite of Shoppes and the APe, they already have. Next to various products on the shelves are little boxes that extol the virtues of kitty crunchies, toilet paper, etc. These have a small video screen and a speaker to spout their drivel. They are motion sensor activated and trip when one gets within 3 feet or so of them. Life imitates art or vice versa….. None the less it is spot on.
Wow, I hope that doesn’t catch on further.
Those screens that tout the virtues of various branded items? Wal-Mart is already using them in their stores, on end caps and over the freezer cases (in their superstores and stores with groceries). And let me tell you, those things are annoying to the max. All they do for me is insure that I won’t buy whatever product they’re touting (I’m perverse that way). I hate commercials on tv/radio, and to have to hear them in the store when I’m shopping pisses me off no end. Force me to listen to that crap and I won’t buy your product, just because. I’ll find an alternative that doesn’t think I need to be constantly reminded of how good it is, how well it works, etc.