- John Thackara, “ Lightness, ” in In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 18 – 19: “ Power tools are another example. The average consumer power tool is used for ten minutes in its entire life — but it takes hundreds of times its own weight to manufacture such an object. Why own one, if I can get ahold of one when I need it? A product-service system provides me with access to the products, tools, opportunities, and capabilities I need to get the job done — namely, power tools for me to use, but not own. ”
- Based on a working presumption that the “ glass ” in Google Glass — or some daughter tech nology with longer-term traction — would also be well suited to windshields, another group of students developed a prototype suite of geolocative augmented reality games to be played by passengers in cars sharing nearby locations on the road through vehicle-to-vehicle networks. From this, other applications are easy to imagine, from the mundane (videoconferencing) to the whimsical (site-specific virtual flora and fauna superimposed over the passing outlines of the landscape) to the ugly (advertising-supported toll routes). See also Ryan Lawler, “ Dispatch from the Future: Uber to Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars from Google, ” TechCrunch, April 25, 2013, http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/25/uberauto/. Chunka Mui, “ Dispatch from 2023: Google Considers Buying 250,000 Driverless Cars from Tesla, but Buys Tesla Instead, ” Forbes, August 29, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/chunkamui/2013/08/29/dispatch-from-2023 -google-considers-buying-250000-driverless-cars-from-tesla-but-buys-tesla-instead/.
- Gary Marcus, “ Moral Machines, ” New Yorker, November 24, 2012, http://www.newyorker .com/news/news-desk/moral-machines.
- Nick Bilton, “ Disruptions: As New Targets for Hackers, Your Car and Your House, ” New York Times, August 11, 2013, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com//2013/08/11/taking-over-cars-and -homes-remotely/.
- See, for example, Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013).
- See Danielle Citron, “ Bright Ideas: Anita Allen ’ s Unpopular Privacy, ” Concurring Opinions, January 13, 2012, http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2012/01/bright-ideas-anita -allens-unpopular-privacy.html.
- Jacob Applebaum, Andy Mueller-Maguhn, Jeremie Zimmermann, and Julian Assange, “ Episode 8, Part 1, ” WikiLeaks World Tomorrow, April 2012, https://worldtomorrow.wikileaks.org/ episode-8.html.
If you look at it from a market perspective, I ’ m convinced that there is a market in privacy that has been mostly left unexplored, so maybe there will be an economic drive for companies to develop tools that will give users the in-dividual ability to control their data and communication. Maybe this is one way that we can solve that problem. I ’ m not sure it can work alone, but this may happen and we may not know it yet. — Jeremie Zimmermann
Philip Mirowski writes that “ the Incredible Disappearing Agent has had all sorts of implications for neoliberal political theory. First off, the timeworn conventional complaint that economics is too pigheadedly methodologically individualist does not begin to scratch the neoliberal
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