This is definitely on the horizon and future generations won’t even be aware of a time when you didn’t pay a subscription for every aspect of life. (TikTok screencap)
This is definitely on the horizon and future generations won’t even be aware of a time when you didn’t pay a subscription for every aspect of life. (TikTok screencap)
Came here to post that. More context: Short story by Cory Doctorow about apartments having mandatory proprietary toasters that only toast bread baked by the company , which then goes out of business, which makes the authorization handshake fail, which makes all the toasters useless, and then plot and stuff happens. It’s a good read.