Watched a video of a 'technology conference.' Several speakers were lined up to introduce their products, making commentary on the impact these devices will have. The introducer believed this conference was heralding the next step of the 'digital lifestyle.'If these companies are so efficient, why are they still working? Why isn't their job done? Because their job is not to scratch the itches of our needs, it is to enflame them. Modern refridgerators with built-in televisions are an embarassing example of this. The creators of these fads will not acknowledge their own obscolescence because of greed. Enormous waste is the result, instead of innovation. While some companies move on, and find something else to perfect, other companies shift greater and greater money into the gamble of advertising, like the guy who shamelessly accosts every girl in the place, knowing that circumstance here and there will deal something to him.

When Bill Gates says 'seamlessly integrate' I think about the Frankenstein with the ice-maker and the small flat-screen. He is proud to note that you can be in the other room while you send your digital images from your camera to your PC.

It seems so innocuous (harmless). But these technologians produce time-saving devices, and we save time. Time to spend on what? To spend on time-saving devices, of course--because that is part of our 'digital lifestyle.' Sadly, this nonsense phrase returns over 600,000 results on Google. Hmm... make that 600,0001.