From eg
This
living ontology pattern moves from
owner-driven to describe
use value using a
shared ontology of services, enabling a so-called
new civilization protocol.
The
owner-driven rent/use/return pattern paranoiacally preserves
infrastructure owners trust by requiring
permission rather than
forgiveness. Use before rental is defined as theft.
The use/rent/return pattern is simpler and the concept of theft is reduced to that of additional rents - as is often the case in say video rental. The
user is
acquired and uses the
item/service/facility in its ordinary mode of use. Some portion of rent is paid up front or as part of the cost of marketing or insurance or under written by society as a whole. All
gain/loss/capital goals are achieved by satisficing the user's need, maximizing rental opportunity, minimizing returns. Shareware for instance follows this very pattern:
- use is easy
- rent is charged only after an initial use period
- return is achieved by technological means (crippling) or lack of features or help or service
As this model moves to generic physical things, use of
RFID,
biometrics and
mobile augmented reality should be sufficient to deal with any problems arising from having the use precede the rent. However, URR assumes that the rented item/service/facility is so generic as to be easily provided to any user - the abundance assumption. Efforts to
balance/service/throughput are enabled as follows:
individual capital does not
waste time,
instructional capital reflects the actual use, not affordable, use, and
infrastructural capital is minimized: everyone does not need their devices.
Throughput accounting integrates with the URR pattern as follows: 1.
more money in - increase
cash throughput by making more usable goods available where they are likely to be used by those that are willing, able, and likely to pay - see
trynbuy2.
money trapped - reduce inventory by moving goods to where they will be used more - effectively treating every location like a warehouse - see
everywherehouse. 3.
less money out - reduce operating expense by replacing
insurance with up-front labour
contracts to repair or replace inputs that would otherwise cost in cash - see
barter
The
instructional capital associated with each
item/service/facility grows maximally since everything is used to the maximum degree, assuming it can be monitored and observed. As users give up
privacy until they pay rent, this is a reasonable tradeoff indeed if
innovation is possible.