Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better (2016)
forbes.com
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I know HN loves a pull specifics out so /shrug
> We have access to transportation, accommodation, food and all the things we need in our daily lives. One by one all these things became free, so it ended up not making sense for us to own much.
Transportation and accommodation will scale with technology so there will be a premium version of both of these in the future. The non-premium version of both my be available 'for free' (as part of taxes) but 2021 is a good indicator that very few people will wish to take those up.
>In our city we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.
??? So don't you pay rent for the time you spend sleeping in it?
> Shopping? I can't really remember what that is. For most of us, it has been turned into choosing things to use. Sometimes I find this fun, and sometimes I just want the algorithm to do it for me. It knows my taste better than I do by now.
Was this written as a piece of satire? Could anything be more intrusive than an algorithm that knows that well. Also, look at the incentives of the person who runs that algorithm - it's not you cos you're not paying for it. They're obviously going to change that algorithm to pick things with highest margins not the things you really want.
I wonder if these ideas are being pushed by people that have accumulated so much wealth that thinking like this possible for them(or their heirs) as in their minds money has no value anymore, sort of a "let them eat cake" attitude.
On the other hand it is interesting how "Mainstream music" is now almost free so I suppose some of the ideas are possible.