I mean, yes and no.

You know how when you look up at a nights sky, and the whole sky is covered in a series of rotating popup ads, with the stars as their backdrop?

What do you mean NO??? When you use your telescope to try to look at space, and all you see is a facebook ad, a mcdonalds ad, a starbucks ad, an ad for a local lawyer, you know…space ads. We’ve all seen them. Just ads floating in space, illuminating the night sky.

Oh, my mistake. This is 2025. That’s commonplace in 2125. See, the technology to impose global space ads isn’t a thing yet.

The thing about technology is, there’s always somebody looking to profit off of every new technology. The technology behind space ads is actually used to show important global events, like what the global dictator does everyday. Oh, right. In 2125 there’s a global dictator who rules the entire planet through oppression and slavery. So, not much different than 2025, besides even the illusion of freedom is gone.

The point is, you don’t have the technology to put ads in the sky, and therefore the advertising industry can’t yet be blamed. But once it exists, they will.

It really is a chicken or the egg situation.