while advertising has always seemed like the parasite of television, televisions are become parasites of our attention and visual field: today we can get television in our telephones music players gas pumps vending machines and everything else then soon television will have to convince us to watch it. newsbreaker is a cognitively taxing version of brick-breaker where news headlines fall out of the bricks as they are destroyed. it offers content on top of content, and makes reading the news a little less fun than playing a video game. what next? sponsored bricks?
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