I don't know how accurate is this, but it's surely some thinking maretial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

your article does indeed make sense
The new phones break a lot faster, have size that they get easily lost.
And their so small otherpeople dont even know your holding a phone.
Still they try to claim its a gadget which no one can see..duh.

Give me back that old time, when things where clear to see has cord and where connected to physical places (on the wall). These days a phone has a life span usually of less then 2 or 3 years.. so we're only producing waste
While old designs like the voyager spacecraft still call home since 1977

Probably we're not used to that anymore as we are still surprised the mars pathfinders still drive on Mars as how can anything technical have a life span of more then 2 years..??

BTW nice to mention, as there is more in life then chess.