A recent Yahoo article I read seemed to invoke a real sense of foreboding doom. The article described a new "doomsday vault" that would contain all of the necessary agricultural seeds to allow mankind to replant any agricultural goods that had been destroyed in some monumental catastrophe. However, Yahoo seemed to be attempting to be placing a positive spin on the article putting it in the "green" section of Yahoo, and talking about the construction as if it was an achievement. My first thought after I read this article was on the state of mankind. This story should be a morose comment on the state of foreign affairs in our world instead of an achievement to collect the most seeds possible. Think about this thought for a second: How messed up does our world have to be that we feel we must build a "doomsday vault" to rebuild the world's agricultural goods?

It's official. Today not only marks the death of a vicious two-year
format war, but also the death of Toshiba's much touted HD DVD. While
the demise of HD DVD has seemed imminent over the past few weeks with
the announcement of the last major studios and equipment manufacturers
going exclusively Blu-Ray, it didn't always seem that way. In fact, if
I recall, it was only a year ago that HD DVDs and HD DVD players were
out-selling Blu-Ray discs and players by more 60%. Toshiba, the
creator of the HD DVD format, thought they were a shoe-in from the
start, saying that Blu-Ray would fall just as Sony's other proprietary
BETA format had in the 1980s. The argument was that Blu-Ray was new,
its specs weren't finished, and all it had going for it was that the
PS3 had it built in. Guess they were wrong... and rightfully so.

Where Toshiba failed in all of this, was the lack of acknowledgement
of an educated consumer base. Unlike the technology consumer of the
80's, 21st century consumers are armed with a wealth of knowledge when
it comes to their next tech purchase. People can tell when picture
quality is better. People know that more storage is better than less
storage. People knew that Blu-Ray was the format of the future.

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