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This is starting to be a real problem. What if Tesla decides to shut down their cars after 7 years or your phone stops working after 2 years? I bet somebody somebody will come up with an idea for a house that shuts down after a certain time.

If you can't rely on ownership of something anymore we'll be in big trouble. Maybe there will be a countertrend where instead of relying on the cloud as storage/computing service computing and storage will go back to the customer.




We already have housing as a service (eviction is close enough to shutting down, so it has that to).

It's not so bad, people generally understand the implications of renting and there are laws protecting their rights.

I wonder if people were clearer that these gadgets were unlikely to stick around for 3 years if they would buy them at all.




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