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Products redesigned for collaborative consumption

via Wired: Beyond the Beyond by Bruce Sterling on 4/11/11

*I wondered when this would happen. How exceedingly interesting. Mostly design-fiction so far, but it’s a strange parallel product-world to, say, American planned obsolescence and/or clunkily rugged Soviet design.

*I especially like the segmented shareable fridge and the bike with solid rubber tires.

http://www.shareable.net/blog/should-products-be-designed-for-sharing

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