Possessions are over
…they’re not possessions. Possessions are over. They are data! Data which sometimes manifests itself as my possessions. This refuse then folds itself right back into the social streams of eBay and Freecycle. Light-of-footprint. Door-to-door. Peer-to-peer.
Freedom is just another word for nothing! There is no dead weight in my urban spatiality. No clotted semiotics, cajoling me to behave in the stereotyped haute-bourgeois manner that Deirdre once used to stifle me.
Dematerialisation is defined by its interfaces. That which was product will become a service. That which was a service will accelerate at warp speed toward de-monetisation on the Path-to-Free. So this is not so much a post-divorce flat as a vibrant zone of interactive transaction.
— Bruce Sterling, The Hypersurface of this Decade
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I am not totally sure, because I didn’t understand a lot of it, but I think (??) that that post was awesome.
KT, Friday 15th Jan 2010, 5AM #
‘Freedom is just another word for nothing!’ would make a good forehead tattoo. Or maybe a buttock tattoo for a nudist. Or would that count as clothing?
KT, Friday 15th Jan 2010, 5AM #
“…I stooped to pick a buttercup. Why people leave buttocks lying around, I’ve no idea.”
Fraser, Friday 15th Jan 2010, 2PM #
Freedom is just another word for nothing!
Thist the sentence I like most in this read, very good, I think.
SEO対策, Monday 1st Feb 2010, 4PM #
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