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Updated: July 31, 2026

Such a privacy of advertisement will never work, I think, on a large scale; it is probably at or near its maximum development now, and this anticipation of the advertiser-owned paper, like that of hourly papers, and that wonderfully powerful cosmic newspaper syndicate, is simply another instance of prophesying based only on a present trend, an expansion of the obvious, instead of an analysis of determining forces.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Anticipations : Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought