text: If people would stop being so obsessed with infinitesimal  technology increments we wouldn’t have this problem.
  
  I am never so appalled at consumerist culture as when I see the lineups outside the Apple store for the latest release of the iPhone.  Wow!  Two microns thinner!  An extra square inch of display space!  Another megapixel of camera resolution!  Gotta pony up 800 bucks for that……if I don’t, my fellow hipsters will think I am hopelessly out of touch……