'So as your consumer electronics adviser, I am advising you to donate your current VCR to a grate resident, who will laugh sardonically and hurl it into a dumpster. Then I want you to go out and purchase a vast array of 8-millimeter video equipment.

... OK! Got everything? Well, too bad, sucker, because while you were gone the electronics industry came up with an even newer format that makes your 8-millimeter VCR look as technologically advanced as toenail dirt. This format is called "3.5 hectare" and it will not be made available until it is outmoded, sometime early next week, by a format called "Elroy", so order yours now.' -- Dave Barry, "No Surrender in the Electronics Revolution"

It reminds me of the 90's when hardware became obsolete in under a year. Everybody moved so fast with large lanague models that they hit hardware limitations very quickly, and now they are working on efficiency. This also reminds me of computers when they moved to multi-core processors and increasing work per clock rather than jacking up the frequency as high as possible.

If I live to see the next few years I'm going to wonder how I managed to use today's state of the art text and image technology. That reminds me of old video games I used to love, but now they are completely unplayable.