TXT Island, a parable of economic development

*Where did he get that huge pegboard?

*I know where he found the time; he's probably unemployed and
he also quit websurfing.

*Someday – maybe someday SOON – all my entertainment will look
like this, and my washing machine, constructed by the same postindustrial
practices, will look like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/3649200921/

*Also, my new home will look like this:

http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13837400

*Probably because of, uhm, this:

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/03/boomers-future-went-down-drain.html

*And what will I have in my overcrowded, climate-crisis, fly-ash concrete Boomer dorm?
Open, reconfigurable stuff that used to be recognizable "products"! LIke, you know,
a bamboo solar washing machine, only with better rhetoric.

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