WebProNews

I disagree with you completely. Firstly, where do the 1st and 3rd world countries come into play? Facebook alone is projected to continue (key word: continue, as in already does) to grow in users by 8% monthly. This would mean that by November, 300 million people will log onto Facebook every single day! Of these people, only 30% of them reside in the United States. (Not to mention Google hasn't struggled in creating a $157.23 BILLION dollar global enterprise essentially pimping products we want to see. AND that these first products we see are infact paid advertisement! "Much of the good stuff is missed"- - go tell that to a successful marketer.)

All of this means that this "lack of access" you speak of doesn't exist. I think you should try googling what a cookie means, and I'm not talking about the kind you eat. Our behavior on the Internet is absolutely profiled, recorded and monitored constantly. With your email alone, I could give you a list of almost every social forum you've plugged your email into. I can tell you what website you came from before entering mine (for example) and exactly what you're clicking through while on mine. I can email you (if you sign up for email) a custom promotional email directly marketed towards you, with exactly the product you browsed on my website. You as the customer think this phenomenon is coincidence, never knowing that I intentionally targeted you, exploiting essentially your train of thought. The internet is a buffet most consumers aren't aware their eating at. Flash and banners are a very small part of the marketing tools being used to lure us in one direction or another.

Lastly, I want to give you some insight on something "totally radical." Google Wave, the Bing browser now apart of Facebook search and Web 2.0. If these tools are even a fraction as successful as projected... I might take you up on your tinfoil hat idea.