Thanks, Father Steve - droll indeed! I agree though, it's never going to happen in the idealistic way that Bruce Sterling writes and speaks about with such engaging rhetoric! The reason is simple - where's the economic driver? We can already recycle stuff beyond our economic ability to make it worthwhile; and most of the social changes this kind of development would imply tend towards the authoritarian. "Don't do that, Dave...!"

I like his word blobject, though...

Blobjects are the period objects of our time. They are the physical products that the digital revolution brought to the consumer shelf.