The same old rant, over and over... Communistic rethoric is unable to evolve, it merelly reproduces the same criticism over time, pinpointing the same flaws just changing the target.

Ho, and punching Hayek, 30 years after his death, is really beneath contempt.

Technofeudalism is something you can choose to be a part of or not. You can (and should) pay for email, news and other services and you may or may not choose the cloud, most do not by the way.

So really, who is Varoufakis talking about?

Many people do not have the disposable income to pay for email, news, or other services and even among those who do, aren't economically educated enough to think about the systemic downsides of taking the free option. Systemic problems are uniquely difficult to address at the individual level through individual action.

You may have the skill, knowledge and wealth to pay for email, news and services, but a large part of the population doesn't and they will drag you down with them.

Edit: typo, 'to' instead of 'the'

yes, and this large part of the population does not therefore have the means to become a technoserf.

Why not? Non-engineers seems always be the most eager to use the cloud to the most extreme.

It is your tech-illiterate friends that hook you into the toxic cloud merely by having your contact information.

Technology changes social interactions.

The cloud isn't free though, neither is shopping on amazon. Private Email (protonmail) starts at... 4 dollars a month... In light of this, are "technoserfs" who use and pay for the cloud (on not so cheap mobile phone, mind you) really the victims? Or are they just regular people who rate certain things as higher priority than others, and it is that hierarchy that displeases Mr Varoufakis so much.

For the rest of your point, everything (class, affluence, age, technology, etc...) changes social interaction, all the time, always.

> Communistic rhetoric

You remind me of my friend, who calls everything communist. I recited to him some writing from the French revolution, apparently it was communist before communism was invented.

Hummm, i still prefered my Ti-book, to be honest, and would be very happy for a modern version of it.

Its durability issues aside, the TiBook more or less became the template modern laptop. Easily one of the most timeless apple portable designs.

versus a 15” Air, what are you missing?

Ports (TiBook had Ethernet, modem, full sized DVI, FireWire, USB, optical audio, s-video, and PCMCIA), upgradable memory and storage, replaceable battery, and an illuminated Apple logo ;-)

I can’t remember if it was the 2012 or 2016 MBP, but it was about 10 years between the TiBook and the next Apple portable with as accurate color representation. It was even longer before another Mac laptop had a screen as thin with bezels as small.

Picking mine up for the first time in several years, I’m shocked at how huge and heavy it was. In its day it was 30-50% thinner and lighter than a high end Dell.

My grandma had one of these and I loved it. Great machine!

I definitely prefer a modern machine because of speed, portability, and battery life. I'd consider picking up one of these just for nostalgia sake though to use for fun side projects.

And The Watchmen long before that

Well, for the soviet equivalent to James Bond, look no further than Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov, better known as Max Von Stierlitz.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz

Stierlitz is a typical noir character, entirely different from Bond. The entire premise of the James Bond series and of course Bond's lifestyle were completely incompatible with the ideology, so no real equivalent was possible.