If you want to help make the world sane, you don't need to give up your smartphone, using computer cloud services, or visiting websites.
There is a plethora of services offering you to get paid for doing all kinds of stuff online – watching videos, surfing, visiting websites and so on.
If the system detects that consumers are already visiting websites and conducting searches related to Halloween in August, for instance, it will encourage editors to publish articles on the subject.Carol Bartz, Yahoo!'s boss, has similar plans.
And there are so many other things the iPad is clearly going to be brilliant for, such as viewing YouTube videos of skateboarding rottweilers or visiting websites dedicated to cats that look like Mussolini.
It may be, however, that you are reading this online after scanning a comparative review of flat-panel televisions on a technology blog, or visiting websites for villa rentals in Tuscany in which case it might make more sense to show advertisements for televisions or villas.
In fact, since many startups based on Bitcoin and blockchain technology are obsessed with micropayments – they want users to pay for everything, from sending emails to visiting websites to, eventually, breathing and blinking – the older generation of platforms like Google and Facebook might simply be forced down that path.
