At around $100, a laptop becomes an impulse buy for many people. Need a disposable machine you can buy for an overseas vacation? Need something you can give the kids where you don't have to worry if it gets lost or trashed? Need a laptop you can buy from a vending machine? How about handing out free laptops that tie you into some monthly subscription service? All of these become possible at a $100 price point.
Yeah, I sure can't wait to see laptops piling up in trashcans and landfills. Soon the Earth will be uninhabitable and we'll need robots to compact piles of disposable laptops into small cube, We'll have to take off on a giant space cruiser to live for a few years, serviced by robots day in and day out. Before you know it, the human race is a bunch of semi-gelatinous blobs sucking food out of cups, constantly entertained by mobile video platforms on their hover chairs.
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Seriously, let's get this party started. I want my burger smoothie.
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At around $100, a laptop becomes an impulse buy for many people. Need a disposable machine you can buy for an overseas vacation? Need something you can give the kids where you don't have to worry if it gets lost or trashed? Need a laptop you can buy from a vending machine? How about handing out free laptops that tie you into some monthly subscription service? All of these become possible at a $100 price point.
Yeah, I sure can't wait to see laptops piling up in trashcans and landfills. Soon the Earth will be uninhabitable and we'll need robots to compact piles of disposable laptops into small cube, We'll have to take off on a giant space cruiser to live for a few years, serviced by robots day in and day out. Before you know it, the human race is a bunch of semi-gelatinous blobs sucking food out of cups, constantly entertained by mobile video platforms on their hover chairs.
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Seriously, let's get this party started. I want my burger smoothie.