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Can a Web site in Cyberspace hypnotize its visitors?

Hop David hopspage at tabletoptelephone.com
Sun Aug 13 14:43:55 EST 2000



Ayende Rahien wrote:

> "Mikal 606" <mikal606 at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:8n6lf7$87g$1 at slb3.atl.mindspring.net...
> > You didnt answer the question.
> > Do you think sites can induce hypnotic states?
>
> Theoretically, I guess so.
> You can build a flash movie of Java Applet that would hypnotize people, I
> assume.
> The problem is that it takes time and some willingness from the surfer.

If a flash movie could, istm that you could do this in an ordinary
television commercial.

Madison Avenue would like that!

A premise of the cartoon Obvious Man is that the mass media have put the
populace into a mindless trance.

-- Hop
http://clowder.net/hop/index.html






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