I feel the need… the need for speed!

Last week I had to read a few chapters of The Human Race, in connection with some promotional work, and one section caught my eye. It is when Uma is talking to Ethan about the speed at which technology invades our lives these days. The examples she cites are all consumer products and she looks at the time it took to sell 15,000,000 of the following items:

15 years for the television.12 years for the video recorder.11 years for the mobile phone.10 for the PC.8 years for the CD...