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That written piece is a combination of wishful dreams and technofetishism. Technological advancement can expand possible options and methods, but it's ultimately fixed within the social, economic and political norms of the nations it's part of. One cannot look at Google or Microsoft or Apple without recognizing that they are shaped by capitalism and our modern day culture, and to suppose that individuals similarly influenced are going to break free from the yoke of the world around them because of technology conveys astounding ignorance of the life that billions of people live day to day: not connected to the cloud, but scrabbling to survive and washing clothes by hand and dying to easily treatable diseases or starvation. It's nothing new though; Popular Mechanics did the same thing in the 1950s:  Where's my waterproof living room with a drain in the middle so my housewife can do all her daily cleaning with a hose? 
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