Minimise to reproduce

Technology is endlessly miniaturised, compacted, sped up, made stronger and cheaper. All of the above attributes lead to one thing only - reproduction on grand scale at a fraction of a price and use of minimal resources and time. Great! So as society demands more, smaller, better, cheaper - the factories and their owners oblige and produce lots of duplicates of what ever it is that the public demands. In their enthusiasm at making a profit out of the consumer, inevitably they overproduce, making the particular product even cheaper, to the point of it becoming disposable, imagine what it was like in the late 70's or early 80's, when you received a pocket calculator, or personal stereo, one just wouldn't dream of throwing it away, just because there is as new model available, (unless money is no object).

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Now that market has been completely flooded with this products, and they have been replaced with new versions, calculator is included in the mobile telephone, personal stereo is replaced with an MP3 player (another sort of personal stereo), and became disposable. And so on, the mobile telephones are disposable, the MP3 players too, 1 year ago to have 1gig MP3 player was the thing to have, now if it's less than 4gig, it's not worth having.