Spime Watch: The Internet of Old Things

*I'm keenly interested in these suggestions that a network society inherently transforms our understanding of futurity and history.

*There are suggestions here that Ruskinian sentiment about artsy old objects can use the Internet to fight back against planned obsolescence. That's got to be part of it — but that's not even half of it.

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Looking backwards whilst walking forward

Whilst the consumer landscape is kept 'fresh' with information about the new, the network...