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~ns

I feel somewhat similarly about software subscriptions for specific hardware, e.g. Tesla Autopilot. All the hardware is there, the code is (probably) there, all locked off by a single boolean flag.

I think human brains aren't good at the concept of "ownership" if it doesn't directly relate to a single physical object.

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~aftergibson wrote:

Definitely, I think we really struggle with it in the digital realm. I suspect a lot of it comes down to, how things are presented to us. For example our data isn't so much in "Files" anymore(especially on iPhone), but accessed through Apps or hosted in the Cloud. It's all bit nebulous for people to truly grasp anymore....

~eaplmx wrote:

Great point! I agree we are having a bad time understanding the new ways of 'ownership' for this century.

I've researching these days about the ownership of digital stuff, including the noisy trends (DRM, NFT, Free speech, and such).

Wow, it's a deep rabbit hole that colides with the primitive human brain and the perception of modernity when we are being directed by fuzzy algorithms.