Hi Johannes
Your comment that, "the time has come for owning our own hardware, and rebuilding the internet as a society of owners" is interesting. If anything, the rise of B2B servitisation (https://connect.innovateuk.org/documents/416351/3926914/Servitization+impact+study.pdf/5b31740a-56ff-41c2-bdc8-e4289353fa66) , B2C leasing and the C2C collaborative consumption (http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/sites/default/files/uploads/3/roo-rogers-redscout.pdf) models point in exactly the opposite direction.
Why would you want to own a rapidly depreciating piece of hardware that will be obsolete in a few years time when you can rent it instead, get the outputs it creates, or better still, get the outcomes you desire instead.
Best regards from Edinburgh, Graham
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Gesendet: Montag, 12. Mai 2014 um 17:32 Uhr
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Betreff: [projectvrm] Wired article on Indie Box
Wired has a great article on Indie Box.
It went on-line this morning, and already has 1300 Facebook likes. (Yes, the irony!)
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/out-in-the-open-indie-box/
This tells me the time has come for owning our own hardware, and rebuilding the internet as a society of owners, not renters or sharecroppers.
Cheers,
Johannes.