"Worlds of scarcity are made out of things. Worlds of abundance are made out of dependencies." I don't necessarily agree with the abundance premise. Worlds of

"Worlds of scarcity are made out of things. Worlds of abundance are made out of dependencies." I don't necessarily agree with the abundance premise. Worlds of dependencies are worlds that demand time-consuming labor (ours or someone else's) to resolve and manage those dependencies, and time today is considerably more scarce than matter or energy. Even worse time unlike matter or energy cannot be manufactured or extracted with increasing efficiency. We have only so much time, period. I remain unconvinced that post-skeuomorphism and everything-is-a-service are steps forward. In particular everything-is-a-service seems to work well only in domains where the thing being offered actually is a service in that it actually does require a continuous input of something behind the scenes.