I had an email today giving me technology deals and one price caught my eye which you can see in the 
image to my right. I remember when these Palm devices were all the rage, I think I even had one for a period of time. It’s always a shock to see the prices of things you brought at possibly hundreds of pounds reduced to nothing more than proto junk.
In the past technological marvels like this would have been kept for years and functioning, but today last months technology is out of date and legacy. Whether the pace can be kept up for years to come, who knows, do I mind, well yes and no.
No because I like “shiney shiney”, yes because the relentless pace of change leads to more and more items like this being consigned to landfill. There lies the quandary, how to have all the new gadgets but to minimise the waste. With software you can remove the packaging all together but using digital distribution methods, with hardware hopefully people can come up with more modular devices, where you can reuse old components in new machines (which you can to a certain extent with PC’s).
At the current rate of land fill I hope someone makes a breakthrough soon before the planets full.