It’s probably going to be your tissue grown on a scaffold to avoid rejection rather than a full artificial organ as in Repomen but we might need those as regrown organs mature or as a stopgap while a spare organ is grown for you.

Call the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spell.

Even if they are corporate or government propaganda mouthpieces?

Just virtual anchors?

Tit for Two Tats

Amazon?

I worked for and bought from companies that have lease options in Europe. If a customer has a faulty unit it gets repaired or replaced according to the terms of their SLA unless it’s physical damage. We offer additional tools for device management that can tell when a drive, battery or cooling system might be going bad to proactively target failing machines before end users notice.

The model you propose exists and your last statement is not reflected in how leasing works in Europe.

Again, what are you leasing and who from?

Which company are you leasing with and did you also buy management with hardware monitoring?

No, if you lease computers when on fails you get a same or next day swap out.

One: that’s what insurance is for.

Two: Upgradability assumes I’m talking about something that is still in development, not a mature technology.

Three: that’s recyclability which is a different attribute.

It has a place, many people’s phones are part of a subscription service, it’s quite common for cars and leased fleets of laptops in large organisations.

That’s just a product as a service model and already exists.

I can see that in your answers.

There are manufacturing trade offs between competing qualities: affordability, reliability, longevity, modularity, reparability, environmental resistance, recyclability. No one product can score highly in all areas so each has a balance of attributes and the legislation of the market it is sold in.

It’s not as binary as you suggest, most product segments are split into three regions on a sigmoid curve of quality as a function of price.

Budget, Mainstream and Premium.

To suggest that budget products have built in obsolescence by design vs premium is incorrect, they are built to a lower quality so will wear out quicker. Similarly a premium product may seem overpriced, especially in a rapidly evolving product like semiconductors. True value exists in the linear mainstream section where performance and quality goes up linearly with price. This spectrum exist for buyers too,

We already have leasing and subscription based services, Desktop as a Service, mobile phone contracts, vehicle subscriptions, rental properties. These make sense while a technology is evolving but less so for mature products like furniture where we don’t perceive planned obsolescence as problematic.

If a device is overbuilt and hardened to the point where it is unlikely to fail in your lifetime does design for reparability matter?

Those aren’t examples.

If a device is overbuilt and hardened to the point where it is unlikely to fail in your lifetime does design for reparability matter?

Suede - Lonely Girls fits well with your definition, also consider Song for Whoever by The Beautiful South

It’s cheaper than the alternative at 10x the cost.

Half a trillion dollars, bargain!

Estimated 14 trillion dollar cost of sea level rise if we don’t get the climate under control.

Thanks for the detail and perspective.

Assuming CO2 emissions remained static, how much carbon capture and storage would be necessary to reduce atmospheric CO2 to 1900 levels and how much energy would it cost to do it?

But if the fuel is electricity + plastic + CO2 then it’s not sustainable because the plastic component is fossil fuel.

Fossil Fuel, (and therefore transport) by 2030 all subsidies will be gone, globally we will have stopped exploiting new resources in favour of solar energy. There may be niche areas where using solar to make synthetic fuels make sense but biofuel means farming for fuel instead of food.

As we move to a world where transportation isn’t powered by cheap dirty fuel the economics of mass production will change and redistribute making localised recycling necessary to avoid the massive energy, environmental and pollution cost of digging up and transporting new raw materials.

Another side effect is the daily mass migration we call commuting will be much smaller, leaving more town centre buildings vacant.

As a result more and more stuff will be produced much closer to the point of use than it is now. with food in vertical farms, (in those now empty offices). 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping will be used for machine parts, you might actually be able to download a car rather than having it shipped around the globe.

Mars, Venus, Mercury and perhaps the larger moons of Jupiter and Saturn might be colonised in the not too distant future if we can figure out a zero waste method of living. The energy requirement of shipping live humans much further is very problematic so interstellar travel will have to wait until we’ve evolved beyond our meatsacks.

Best Christmas Movie Ever.

Gremlins