Young people are just as technologically and politically dumb as old people. Or conversely, age doesn’t equal wisdom in either direction.

we finally got rid of files. dropbox, google drive, soundcloud, spotify, netflix, hbogo, youtube, wattpad, kindle, and a host of other cloud based services finally killed off three letter filenames like mp3, mov, doc and xls. spending a week in the caribbean with young adults and bad internet was the tell on this one for me. they don’t even have mp3s on their iphones anymore!

As if getting rid of files is some laudable goal. If you don’t have the file, you don’t have shit.

It could be taken away at any time and some big company could force you to re-rent it again. The perpetual rental model is something the copyright industry has been striving for since at least the 1930s and probably earlier.

Technologically, they are finally able to achieve it.

So you people don’t keep anything locally? Good luck keeping anything at all long-term.

I guarantee at some point it’ll be taken from you by some large corporation.