It's 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better (2016)

>Why keep a pasta-maker and a crepe cooker crammed into our cupboards? We can just order them when we need them.

The main point of owning things is that you get to use them when you want to use them.

People keep those things in cupboards because when they decide on a whim to make pasta they do just that. The same goes for all the rest - having cars, houses and so on.

Unless there's some kind of Philip K Dick-style machine that near-instantly delivers good X to your apartment through a vacuum tube or something, that as-a-service bs won't fly. No one wants to wait hours (on the best case given our current logistics network) after deciding to make pasta to actually get the pasta machine.

The article is definitely not the "best" version of this vision of the future I've read...

Not that I'm advocating for this future in any way, but I assume that a more realistic version of this (especially for as near as 2030) is that many people still have jobs that have an actual schedule. Maybe we can be optimistic and dream that people get to work less than 40 hours a week to have a reasonable quality of life.

But the idea of "I own nothing" cannot conceivable extend to personal items like clothing. That doesn't make any sense. In a future of "no ownership", you'd still own your shirt and toothbrush. Probably you'd still own your playstation (but do you actually own your video games today??? Can you play them offline? Does your console have ads?) as well. You wouldn't own a car, or your home (you'd have rights while you occupy your home, but not after you move), maybe you wouldn't own tools that are too expensive/specialized to be almost-free.

So for your example, I imagine that immediate delivery services might still exist, but that would be kind of a "high class" service and might be expensive. More than likely, you'd have Amazon dropping off your weekly grocery list on your designated day (e.g., "Wednesdays are trash day and grocery day in my neighborhood").

I highly doubt that we'll have that much more robot workforce by 2030. The only industry where that's possible is brick-and-mortar shopping having no more cashiers, which I do see as somewhat likely.

We went through a comparable transition from most people working in agriculture and farming to that being automated away and people doing stuff that hadn't been much worried about before. Given human nature hasn't changed I imagine it will be similar.

> It's using space, but I don't wish for a future where I don't even have enough space to keep a personal car.

I'm already living that present. It's really nice. Walkable neighbourhoods full of interesting things to see and do, because that space isn't being wasted on car storage.

> As for sharing everything, it's a good theory but would never work in practice. Have you ever lived with people outside of your family or bubble? Some people are filthy and don't even take care of things they own, let alone things they don't.

That seems like a problem that can be solved technologically. Certainly e.g. Zipcars have always been clean when I got in them, somehow.

This is only ridiculous because we're in a society that values making money more than anything else. I wouldn't want to everything to be rent/subscription based because the other party will always be looking for how to get more money out of me. If everything were really truly free and I could order waffles that arrived in 3 minutes what incentive would anyone have to change that service in anyway?