Thoughts on Technology

Nowadayswhereveryou look you can seeadvertisements, and I do mean everywhere. At thebeginningwhen companies first started to advertise their product or products they would put a small advert in papers or in magazines that would go on sale everywhere in the hope that people would use them and visit their shop, or use the product that is being advertised. Adverts were also displayed on bigbillboardsnormally found on the walls of buildings or at train stations. Adverts were also very common on radio stations every where. Later on when motor transport became more and more commonadvertisementswere placed on buses and placed on cars that were taking part in motor sports races. Todayadvertisementsrule our world. You cannot turn without seeing anadvertisementand a very bigpieceof technology which plays a massive part in advertising is the Internet, specifically advertising on-line asit isguaranteedthat while you are surfing the Internet almost every web site you go on will have some sort ofadvertisementon it. Some of these adverts pop-up at you on the screen where as the other, more cunning ones are blended into the web page design but still have the ability to attract your attention. It is very clever how a certain web page design will have their adverts placed in specifically programmed places. It's amazing and abrilliantthing as they give the option of clicking on the adverts only if you want to, rather than thempoppingup at you and giving you no choice in looking at them or not. The web page design of the pop-upadvertisementsare quite clever too, as some will redirect you to the site hosting the product they are advertising even if you click the red X to get rid of the pop-up. It's a very clever bit of programming and a bit cheeky too as it getsguaranteedtraffic to their site and if ensures that almost everyone who visits the site containing the pop-up will be redirected to their site, even only for a fewminutesor seconds. I suppose you could say that web page design is the center of onlineadvertisementsas without thewebpages and the people who design them wewouldn'thave such things. Some of the adverts canunfortunatelybe annoying but that is only a very small few. Most of the adverts on sites are very nice and I have bought a few things because of the adverts I saw online as without them Iwouldn'thave seen what I had bought. If adverts are this advanced now, think how advanced they will be in 10 or even 20 years time. It's veryinterestingto think about.