I noticed that too but the article addressed it by saying:
"Mr. Chang, a technophile who checks on his apartment with a Web cam while traveling, refuses to switch to MP3 files because he loves CD cases and liners."
It's why I keep my old vinyl even though I've downloaded the albums on FLAC. The old album art is incredibly detailed at 12x12 inches and an album cover like "Blue," a patchouli-infused sleeve ("Like a Prayer"), or a working zipper to Mick Jagger's leather pants ("Sticky Fingers") are all fun parts of the experience of owning a historical artifact.
Yes, but this is the sort of thing a market would be good at, finding some optimal tradeoffs between cost and flexibility... if a market could be created. I don't know inner cities well enough to know whether that is true.
If we're going to cite problems, mine would be that the concept probably only works with one person. With any more, everybody has to coordinate what "rooms" are available and the dependency graphs could be quite odd. Can I cook breakfast if you're sleeping in? Can I get to the shower if you're watching a movie? I would expect that even two people would be significantly inconvenienced and three might just lock up due to contention. Smaller, dedicated rooms may suck, but at least they are reasonably independent.
But hey, for one guy, awesome. It's certainly in the running for "ultimate bachelor pad".
My apartment is smaller and my friends who live in Nagoya refer to it as Castle Patrick. (Half a decade of living in ~120 sq feet will alter your perceptions a bit.)
(P.S. And they wonder why I won't move to Nagoya.)
This goes out to show that we always take more than we need. I never lived in 120 sq feet apartment but I am sure I could manage.I hope in a near future we will live in smaller places designed to fit our needs. But I must admit that I would not mind being surrounded by acres of grass.
