The Planned Obsolescence of Consumer Technology (glipho.com)

Sorry, but this sounds like it should be on The Onion. Would the IBDI prefer that technology not advance?

Consider that a C64 ran GEOS GUI on 1MHz processor with 64K of RAM. Compare that to today's 1GHz with 4GB RAM -- 1,000 times faster processor and 62,000 times more memory. It boggles the mind that so much is still so slow.