Did you mean "unsustainable" in your first sentence ?
It seems to me that even at our current level of mass consumerism our lifestyles wouldn't be sustainable for more than a few decades. I'll give it to you that it's more a hunch than a an opinion backed by facts.
You're talking about cars or home appliances but generally we have a few of them. Each one of us will probably have thousands of IOT "things".
Billions of humans having thousands of things that are discarded and replaced by new ones when they fail or are not modern enough is not, in my opinion, a recipe for sustainability.
For the record I counted 17 sensors just for my house alarm and I didn't go overboard, if I hadn't be budget constrained I would have put much more than that.
The alarm is only one year old, but I wouldn't be surprised if in 5 years the company would tell me they're obsolete and I have to buy the new ones to get better protection.
It seems to me that even at our current level of mass consumerism our lifestyles wouldn't be sustainable for more than a few decades. I'll give it to you that it's more a hunch than a an opinion backed by facts.
You're talking about cars or home appliances but generally we have a few of them. Each one of us will probably have thousands of IOT "things".
Billions of humans having thousands of things that are discarded and replaced by new ones when they fail or are not modern enough is not, in my opinion, a recipe for sustainability.
For the record I counted 17 sensors just for my house alarm and I didn't go overboard, if I hadn't be budget constrained I would have put much more than that.