My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

I was talking to my brother the other day - he is not exactly the most computer/technological savvy of people, in fact, within the past few weeks we've had the conversation of: "This internet is different to the one I'm used to - what have you done with yahoo?", but I digress, he was all keen to become a part of this mp3 player revolution. His friends were getting them. They were all raving about how you could put all of your cds on something that fits into your pocket. This whiz-bang ipod type contraption. The conversation went something along the lines of:

Him: "how many songs can you fit on an ipod?"
Me: "it depends on the quality of the song, at CD quality, say the Ipod for around $400-500 is a 30GB one, say each song is about 5-6 minutes in length, this would be around 6000 songs, give or take about a 1000 songs because of the variables. They're pretty damn good"
Him: "But I have over 400 CD's. I have way more songs than that. My computer can hold more than that. That's expensive for so little songs."

It then occured to me that he was probably right. We've been programmed to accept the current technology and say "wow". When a new ipod comes out we go "wow - it's so much better than the last one". But to the outsider they're still lacking that extra something.