Generally speaking, the march of technological progress gives consumers what they expect. More stuff for less money, all the time. Hurrah.

Sometimes, though, some segment of the high-tech industry gets caught in an unprogressive eddy for a while. And it’s usually the fault of oversimplification.

As Albert Einstein said, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Boiling complex concepts down to simple numbers always makes it easier for people to think they understand them, but they often actually don’t.

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