Die Skala wie sinnvoll ein Preis pro Kilogramm ist geht von Zelten über Fahrräder zu Backerbsen.
Schlagwort: Dinge
Antipossessiveness.
Jack liked to remind Eliza several times a day, he was not the sort who accumulated possessions.
Neal Stephenson: Quicksilver
Zuflauschse.
Zuhause ist da wo der Bademantel hängt.
Habeo ergo sum.
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning.
Big Shleppa.
Backup. A perfect, perfectly seductive name for scan and sim. She was amazed she hadn't heard it. As soon as she did, Limpopo just knew there must be thousands — millions — of people using the term. Once you conceived of the thing that made you you as data, aeons of data-handling anxiety kicked in. If you had data, it had to be backed up. Anything important that wasn't backed up was good as lost. Data is haunted by Murphy. Do something irreplaceable and magnificent while out of network and backup range and you were begging for critical failure that nuked it all.
Cory Doctorow: Walkaway
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