one paragraph that stood out

Oroza, who has spent decades collecting, studying and writing about these objects, has a name for the phenomenon: “technological disobedience.” Cubans, he said, weren’t deterred by complexity or scale, and they learned to disrespect the “authority” of objects. That meant rethinking their original purpose and life cycle.

within this disposable economy, we desperately need to (re)learn to “disrespect the authority of objects”

necessity is the mother of invention and nothing creates artificial necessity that business interests lobbying governments to do their bidding to people who have rejected those business interests.