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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ceasar" data-source="post: 1846074" data-attributes="member: 26155">Fireform,Nobody is knocking them.  They are by all testimony superb!  But---what comes next?I ask this because I am currently reading Donna Leon's latest mystery novel involving the Venetian Detective, Guido Brunetti.  It's title is ABOUT FACE.  A Penguin Mystery.  ISBN 978-0-14-311659-2.On page 153 Guido is having a conversation with his father in law, the fabulously and redundantly wealthy Conte Falier.  The Count is speaking:  ................'Consumption, Guido,' the Conte went on as if Brunetti had not spoken.  'Consumption.  We're obsessed by it.  Our desire is to have not one, but six, televisions.  To have a new telefonino every year, perhaps every six months, as new models are produced.  And advertised.  To upgrade our computers every time there is a new operating system, or every time the screens become bigger, or smaller, or flatter or, for all I know, rounder.'...............And, I the reader, immediately thought of Binoculars!  And I wondered what will come next to reduce their latest incarnation of perfection to pedestrian dullness?Bob</blockquote>