A fictional advertisement satirising the paradox of recent cookie laws. What was supposed to promise privacy has turned into the necessity to consent to data collection.
Using visual elements from old computer and technology commercials, which have prepared the grounds for today’s virtual consumer landscape and technological imagination, this video envisions what the cookie of today will mean for tomorrow. Given the fact that past technology ads, originally just the strategic marketing of a distant technological utopia, today ring true like ancient prophecies, will the Fortune Cookie have predicted our future?