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by dredmorbius 1646 days ago
Don't forget multimedia (South Park was briefly known as "multimedia gulch" before the Web took off), 3DTV, "smell-o-vision", and a bunch of other crud.

Ad-supported surveillance media selling behavioural manipulation turns out to be what took off. It's a mix of what pays, what the public would consume, and what regulators were (at least for a time) afraid to touch.