Ephemeralization

Efforts to make information conform to archaic notions of scarcity, ownership, and finite physical quantity--concepts that grew out of the agricultural and industrial age--merely lock us into old mental boxes of constraint and exploitation.

seems to be a tragicomic fact that every time-saving invention is immediately canceled out by an increase in activity or a change of behavior.

The closer technology brings us to the cusp of feeling like we are the gods of our time, the more incredibly offensive it seems to be reminded of all the ways in which we still aren’t. So you get this utterly bizarre situation where the world speeds up and gets more and more efficient, and we have all this technology for saving time, but it doesn’

Rather than increasing the amount of work to acquire more stuff, reducing this superficial need reduces the amount of necessary work.