Wednesday, June 29, 2011

For those of you sitting on the other side of the plane



Much is written these days about the information that corporations are collecting about all of us every time we use our credit cards, our phones.  Perhaps every time we log on to what my brother calls the inter-web.  They track what we buy, where we go, how we get there, how we pay for it, and so on, all of which in the end paints some kind of pixel picture of us.  The major air carriers have collected some information about me that for some reason has caused them to program my seat assignments such that, no matter what airline I travel, no matter in which direction, I am always seated on the opposite side of the plane from which, the captain tells us, the passengers seated on that side will shortly be having an excellent view of the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, or whatever it is that is worth coming on the radio to mention.  What I have done to deserve this I know not.

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