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Amazon.com executives at a recent board meeting

After leaving a Barnes and Noble bookstore last night, I was thinking as usual about all the books I want to read. Then I also wondered what metaphor might adequately describe the now-perpetual sight in book stores of a huge sales drive pushing the new e-readers right next to all the books and members of staff which the same piece of technology will toss into oblivion in the next few years: it's certainly something like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. 

Then I realized that the e-reader offered for sale by Amazon is called the Kindle... Perhaps it got its name thus?

Person A: Hey! I'm BORED. Let's start a fire!

Moron B: Oh, COOL! What will we use as kindling?

Moron A: Let's burn all these books! There's no need  for them anymore since we brought out the new e-reader! Say, we never did come up with a good name for it...uhhh...

Technology today is speeding so fast into a future still unknown that it seems at times that humans have hardly come up with the systems or ideas where all this processing power alone could be utilized. But then I thought about one area of technology that is as yet beyond us... Amazon also makes money by selling shoes. Would that there was an e-shoe, which when you put it on, you could then select from thousands of shoe styles...