Advertisements; Past and Present

While watching the super bowl, and waiting for the commercials to start, I began to think about how people from earlier generations viewed some of our ideas on advertisement(s).  A lot of the advertisements we saw involved humor and sex.  I feel that this connects with most of the 21st century but for our parents/grandparents, I think they might feel overwhelmed or disrespected by the way we bring advertisements across.  Most of the older advertisements I've seen in store shop windows gave you the name, price, and a picture.  Now we feel the need to drag out the meaning of the product and sometimes even make the advertisement go without any reference to what the product will actually do.  Our ways of getting points across seem to have changed, but I can not say anything against these methods because they seem to work...

All I wonder is, what will be the new big hit in advertisement after the "sex sells" campaign is washed away?

In response to Kristen's Blog: Telecommunication and Ordering

I agree that with the new developments in technology we are moving at such a rapid speed that maybe we aren't looking into all of the possibilities of certain actions.  Every time a new phone comes out, they always seem to have some new problem with it.  Why can't we have the phone the right way in the beginning, the testing audiences should be focused on more than just the sales.  How do we know that orders made from phones are not being received by a third party. 

The internet is insecure as we know it today, so what's to say that our phones are more secure?