Poetry

A tip from Boing Boing, gadgeteer and editor Joel Johnson discusses his take on over-the-counter electronics consumption.
A sample:

And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings, because you wanted a new chromed robot turd to put in your pocket to impress your friends and make you forget for just a few minutes, blood coursing as you tremblingly cut through the blister pack, that your life is utterly void of any lasting purpose. (more at Gizmodo...)

It goes to my argument that even though everyone owns gizmos today, only a handful know about the technology that actually drives it, thus are incapable of doing much creative with it. Kids in my office are amazed that I not only know what their crappy little devices do, I can fix them and/or bend the technology.
Man, they are the Death-of-Innovation Generation!