[extropy-chat] the slope and speed of some changes

[Damien Broderick]

No big surprises, but:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/03/1070351651543.html

< Electronics price cuts jolt buyers
By Lorna Edwards


If you forked out for a swish new DVD player when they first hit the market
six years ago, you would have paid up to $1400.

These days, you can buy what has become one of the fastest-selling consumer
items in history from about $80.

Falling prices such as this have fuelled an electronics spending spree, with
DVD players and digital cameras topping Christmas shopping lists.

It took nine years for VCR players to make their way into 47 per cent of
Australian homes after their 1978 introduction to this country but the DVD
has reached the same popularity in only six years. [etc] >