This entire article really hits home. Sad to admit that much of it is an uncomfortably accurate depiction of life with my tech reviewer hat on.

Years later the technology product will come up in conversation and the technology enthusiast will say “Yeah, I had one of those,” and shrug and consider and understand that revolutions are not about a before and after that belong to history, but are instead about the continuous struggle in the here and now that belongs to the people, and that all progress comes at a price.