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Comments on: Better than Owning? https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/ aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing. Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: dawn upfold https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/comment-page-1/#comment-7978 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:46:16 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/#comment-7978 kevin kelly lives the consumer dream, and in that child’s illusion. the decrepit state of quebec roads and infrastructure quickly refutes the validity of living ‘as if’ owning without responsibility for maintenance. certainly he raises an important point, but to decide to embrace this philosophy is to become wells’ eloi. even the ‘net he presumes to “summon” can fall (and is falling right now, in the face of bell bandwidth throttling and threats to net neutrality).

there are never fewer responsibilities; simply choices to embrace, or ignore them.

]]> By: Hugh McGuire https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/comment-page-1/#comment-7972 Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:56:44 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/#comment-7972 agreed: http://blog.bookoven.com/2009/01/29/my-bookshelf/

]]> By: Christine Prefontaine https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/comment-page-1/#comment-7964 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:43:17 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/#comment-7964 Yes, yes. I know. Then I can read them when I’m in a queue somewhere. Fully agree. But still not willing to give up the object. Besides, they’re an important part of my home decor ;)

And I have not yet given in to the iPhone. Still in Blackberry phase.

]]> By: Hugh https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/comment-page-1/#comment-7963 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:28:02 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/#comment-7963 stick em all on yer iphone!

]]> By: Christine Prefontaine https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/comment-page-1/#comment-7962 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:23:19 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2009/01/27/better-than-owning/#comment-7962 Movies and audio, okay, I get it. But give up my dusty bookshelves? The traces of my past obsessions. The books I bought and intend to read *someday*. Never!

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