• rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    Advertising is a method of persuasion.

    It’s as old as civilization.

    We advertise for various reasons, selling products is just one of them.

    And yes, over time, we have developed new advertising techniques.

    A body of techniques is what’s referred to as a “technology”.

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      What are you even on about? Persuasion is not advertising. And in the absence of a material culture for advertising, there is literally no basis for the 30,000 year claim. This is pure nonsense and the worst kind of bullshit.

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          Start with your silly claim that “advertising”, as you define it, occurred 30,000 years ago. Any non-suppositional evidence please.

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            Advertising first occurred at 1000000000 BC when rhe first female dog advertised her availability by spraying pheromones into the air, thus persuading male dogs to etc.

            (I should be getting paid for this)

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      Technology can therefore be defined both as an ensemble of deliberately created processes and objects that together accomplish some function as well as the associated knowledge and skills used in the conception, design, implementation, and operation of such technological artifacts.

      O. L. de Weck, Technology Roadmapping and Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88346-1_1

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          I’m a scholar. It means not pulling stuff from your ass and citing your sources.

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            15 hours ago

            If you understand your subject then you can use your own words, no need for citation.

            If you do not understand your subject then citation will only make things worse.

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      Advertising is a communication technique to bring attention to something.

      You are mostly talking about commercial advertising, which is still not technology.

      Where did you find that definition of technology?