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As medicine and better eating habits make people live longer, technology and the digital age make everything else live shorter ( that sounds funny?).
Once upon a time, your transistor radio or vinyl record player could look forward to a lifecycle of 20 to 30 years, but the modern equivalent of the 21 st century, the iPod is expiring after just 10 years or so
Sales last quarter (including Christmas ) were around 6 million units a decline of 50% on prior year
How do you feel about the acceleration of modern life. Is it like water at the bottom of the bathtub, swirling ever faster, or is it like the feeling on the back of a pocket rocket Japanese motor cycle - a large whoosh of adrenaline?
3:57 AM PT: WOOOOOT - rec listed for an MOT with 3 recs.
Even the rec list suffers from a shortened life cycle ;-)