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Coin Return

Delhi: Coin operated phone kiosk
 

Challenge the whole notion of putting something in, having to remember to take something out.

Thoughts for today: for any given service the difference between what is required and what is used; what happens to the surplus – whether it will find its way back to the customer, reclaimed by the service provider as excess profit (or waste) or through the magic of connectivity is location shifted to someone else, or time shifted to your future (or past, heh) self.