In the immaterial culture models, architecture becomes nothing more than a universal container, an endlessly reproducible orthogonal blob that is activated by what fills it, not by its relentlessly monotonous, cheaply-made and crudely stamped-out form.

Filling these boxes with what appears, on first glance, to be debris makes apparent that our worldly possessions increasingly have no use-value whatsoever. Yet, each box corresponds to a regime of objects that defines a life. Together, the boxes form relationships, underscoring that we interact with each other and define ourselves through objects. Objects become receiving units within a network of information.

Today we confront the possibility that this is not merely true in the semiotic realm. As every day more and more "smart" refrigerators, automobiles, and video recorders gain the capacity to connect to the global telematic grid, our objects will increasingly communicate with each other, independent of us. Eventually we will become secondary and as disposable to objects as objects are to us today.