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we should directly tie the success of our technologies to how much they enable our humanity (as in, our positive human characteristics), and use this criteria to evaluate past, present and future technologies.

Websites are places. They provide services and social environments. Like architecture, they distribute access and atmospheric context to these resources: Watching a video on Nowness is different from watching a video on YouTube.

Tonal CEO Aly Orady says that similar to smartphones, which were first thought of as luxury items, the math may make more sense once the price of a machine is spread out over a couple years. “The formula for this to work at home is the financing program,” he says.

Ezra: When you buy an NBA topshot what do you own? Anil Dash says you are buying a link to the art, not the art. You are often buying an artwork that links to a server that may disappear.

Sufficient effort is the goal of the industrial capitalist. Capture the most value with the least work. Build a house that doesn’t fall down, with components that last exactly long enough to avoid a claim. Explain that due to unusually call volume…And then, perhaps, there’s a third option.

Once you cut the cord, old meanings disappear, and new ones form. Taxes find new meaning as social justice tools, or as windfall gains for prized constituents."