Soon, marketing will follow you--wired news.

In Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report," advertising targeted at Tom Cruise follows him wherever he goes. That scenario isn't that far from our present reality, says this article: already the technology exists to locate people by their cellphones and send them marketing messages from nearby businesses. Now Mitsubishi is working on an in-store projection system that senses customers and identifies them with facial-recognition software. "The closer the customer approaches, the more specific the information gets," notes the article. "Eventually, the message would focus on the actual product the person is handling" (Corante.com Dec 17, 2003)

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