Een van die Amerikanen is Kelly Sutton, van Cult of Less, die probeert zo min mogelijk te bezitten. Hij wil uiteindelijk uitkomen op 2 tassen en 2 dozen. Maar Sutton heeft tenminste nog een huis, Chris Yurista en Joshua Klein en zijn vrouw hebben ook dat van de hand gedaan en leven nu 'op straat.' Yurista bezit niet meer dan "a backpack full of designer clothing, a laptop, an external hard drive, a small piano keyboard and a bicycle - an armful of goods that totals over $3,000 (£1,890) in value."
Mr Yurista feels by digitising his life, he no longer has to worry about dusting, organising and cleaning his possessions. And he says his new intangible goods can continue to live on indefinitely with little maintenance.En dan beschrijft de Beeb een tweede fenomeen dat ik niet kende: de data crisis counsellor:
"Things like records snap and wear down over time. It's upsetting. MP3s don't," he said.
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And Mr Yurista says he frequently worries he may lose his new digital life to a hard drive crash or downed server.
"You have to really make sure you have back-ups of your digital goods everywhere," he said.
Kelly Chessen, a 36-year-old former suicide hotline counsellor with a soothing voice and reassuring personality, is DriveSavers' official "data crisis counsellor".We leven in een wonderlijke tijd...
Part-psychiatrist and part-tech enthusiast, Ms Chessen's role is to try to calm people down when they lose their digital possessions to failed drives.
Ms Chessen says some people have gone as far as to threaten suicide over their lost digital possessions and data.
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