““According to a number of recent commentators, we are already living in the twilight years of the empire of things. They announce the coming of ‘dematerialization’ and ‘post-consumerism’, marked by a growing interest in experiences, emotions and services, a revival of repairing, and the spread of leasing initiatives and sharing networks enabled by the internet.4 By 2015, almost a thousand repair cafés had sprung up in the richest corners of consumer societies in Western Europe and North America.””
