Daniel Nissanoff’s new book FutureShop

offers a fascinating theory of how the eBay-style “auction culture”

will affect how people buy and sell consumer products in the years to

come. At least, that is, how rich people buy and sell things. From

the book: “We will soon live in a world where the norm is to sell our

$800 Jimmy Choo shoes after wearing them twice, where Verizon will

automatically send us the newest, best, most high tech mobile phone

every six months, and where we’ll lease our Rolex watches instead of

buying them.” No word on how to turn around a nine-month-old Maserati

that’s starting to bore me. (Just kidding, baby! A little joke!)