A toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for tech
An interesting point of anecdata is that I didn't <i>choose</i> to upgrade my perfectly good three-year-old smartphone. I was forced to do so by the weight of compulsory upgrades to OS and apps that now make what was once a decent enough product completely unusable. I'm sure the hardware would last several more years if the vendors would allow me to run the same software that was originally installed on it.