>Every time you bought a loaf of bread, you would have to buy a
>toaster. You wouldn't have to take the toaster, but you'd still have
>to pay for it anyway. Toaster '95 would weigh 15000 pounds (hence
>requiring a reinforced steel countertop), draw enough electricity to
>power a small city, take up 95% of the space in your kitchen, would
>claim to be the first toaster that lets you control how light or dark
>you want your toast to be, and would secretly interrogate your other
>appliances to find out who made them.

Funny as it is, this piece of text discovers itself as the most neglected piece of technology. I've read this seven years ago, and it's unchanged since. Imagine, a technological paper which never had a SP, security patch, new beta...