LA Times Unveils All-Seeing, All-Knowing Billboards

If you haven’t already picked up that new copy of Blade Runner (the fifteenth in a series of seventy-nine editions that will be released over time), you might want to brush up a little on the future, because it is now upon us. AdAge is reporting on the LA Times having purchased a large block of Clear Channel‘s newly-tweaked, digital billboards all over Los Angeles. Sure, we’ve all seen these sorts of massive screens any time we’re in places like sports stadiums and in the thick of Times Square, but these billboards not only project changing, motion images, but will be connected by the internet for instantaneous updates and will have cameras connected, so the billboard can look back at drivers and report on anything around them (for instance “Ocean Monster Surfaces, Destroys Freeway”).