I was going to blog a link to the new holographic dvd storage medium, but what's the point? I won't be able to afford it for about five years. In the meantime it will be discussed by hundreds of online instapundits (not that there's anything wrong with that) and eventually the technology will, hopefully, trickle down to the lower-middle class. And then you are going to see scads of pirating and recording the likes of which make napster and morpheus seem like rubber band guns in a nuclear arms race. We're talking 20 full-length movies per disc. Yum.



This begs the uncomfortable question, however, of "isn't there more to life and identity than your mp3 and video collection?"



Very few people attempt to define themselves outside of their consumer purchases or their employment. We don't even know how to have that conversation anymore, online or off.