This seems like one of the best possible applications for consumer AR. I'd love glasses that would replace display cute animals on top of real-world ads.

Unfortunately, given current trends, you're going to get glasses that put ads on top of cute animals instead.

We are quickly headed toward the dystopia exhibited in the movie minority report. Actually we're already there for the most part.

I think you're being far too generous.

Pollution is something that occurs because it's too costly to prevent, or the people producing the pollution simply don't care.

The effect advertising has one you isn't some externality that the advertisers couldn't be bothered fixing, the effect is the whole point.