Life as a Service

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or the question “What would you take to a desert island?”, my answer is clearer now: “If there is Internet, my computer, my tablet and my smartphone”. Other than that I would miss my piano 😃</p><p id="a84d">There are only a few magazines / publications that I follow closely, I usually read shared news on social networks or my usual sources in Feedly, but there are exceptions such as <a href="https://www.wired.com/">WIRED</a> or <a href="http://www.yorokobu.es/">Yorokobu</a> for the genuine content they have. In the second one I read this article by David G. Ortiz:</p><div id="e1b6" class="link-block"> <a href="http://www.yorokobu.es/cambiar-a-tu-madre-por-apps/"> <div> <div> <h2>La factura de que un puñado de apps hagan tus tareas del hogar</h2> <div><h3>Me echan mucho en cara lo de ser un milenial. Dicen que soy egoísta, vago y que no sé valorar el dinero: que gasto…</h3></div> <div><p>www.yorokobu.es</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*F-O8pB4vu98oXnGj.)"></div>

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    </div><p id="a8a0"><i>NOTE: if you read the article URL it says “change your mother for apps” xD</i></p><p id="0b2f">The fact is that I felt identified because my interaction with the world in a huge percentage is the Internet. Applications and webpages with which I delegate almost everything that is not important to me but it is necessary to do. Transportation, cleaning, buying food, shopping daily things… I spend more money (not quiet sure, we will have to do some numbers) but I’m getting a lot of quality time to do activities that I love and above all freedom. And at the end: time is money.</p><p id="acf4">I had never done this reflection out loud and I think it could be an insight, something we don’t know we already knew and happens to a lot of people. <b>The big question is: can life be lived as a service?</b> At least in a big percentage. I imagine living in the future just like this but more optimized and automated. Could not doing these daily things disconnect us from some essential elements? What do you think?</p><p id="e0fe"># 365daysof #futurism #innovation #apps # day5</p></article></body>

Life as a Service

The concept SaaS (Software as a Service) has become popular in recent years. The philosophy is simple, why to buy a software / app only to use it once, in specific moments or only some functionalities? This paradigm shift has given rise to the Internet we know today and have spread to all areas. Why am I going to buy a movie or a music album? (Netflix / Spotify) Why am I going to buy a car? (Uber / Cabify) And a house? (Idealista / Airbnb) Can you live with a “Life as a Service”?

I have always refused to have “big possessions” and I’ve always liked the concept of paying for a service. I like changes and I need the flexibility to move, although it seems I am “throwing money”. This philosophy is reaching even the “little things”. I had a huge collection of movies, records and videogames, and for the past few years I’ve been selling them. I have become more selective with the “physical” things and for the question “What would you take to a desert island?”, my answer is clearer now: “If there is Internet, my computer, my tablet and my smartphone”. Other than that I would miss my piano 😃

There are only a few magazines / publications that I follow closely, I usually read shared news on social networks or my usual sources in Feedly, but there are exceptions such as WIRED or Yorokobu for the genuine content they have. In the second one I read this article by David G. Ortiz:

NOTE: if you read the article URL it says “change your mother for apps” xD

The fact is that I felt identified because my interaction with the world in a huge percentage is the Internet. Applications and webpages with which I delegate almost everything that is not important to me but it is necessary to do. Transportation, cleaning, buying food, shopping daily things… I spend more money (not quiet sure, we will have to do some numbers) but I’m getting a lot of quality time to do activities that I love and above all freedom. And at the end: time is money.

I had never done this reflection out loud and I think it could be an insight, something we don’t know we already knew and happens to a lot of people. The big question is: can life be lived as a service? At least in a big percentage. I imagine living in the future just like this but more optimized and automated. Could not doing these daily things disconnect us from some essential elements? What do you think?

# 365daysof #futurism #innovation #apps # day5