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Well, the Consumer Electronics Show is over now, so we can all return to the reality of digital devices that don’t work quite as well as promised. The truth is, your thumbs are too big to use all those damned tiny chiclet keys on audio and mobile devices anyway. You can’t view your tiny video screen in daylight, and the image resolution of dad’s 1952 brownie box camera is superior to your cell phone pictures.

Welcome back to reality. Shelly Palmer, Managing Partner, Advanced Media Ventures Group LLC, discovered the truth from a New York cabbie on his return home from Vegas. The cabbie did not have cable television, and accessed the Internet infrequently with an AOL dial-up connection on his Win 98 Dell laptop. Oh, and his cell phone was four years old. But Palmer admits, this cabbie had all the technology he needs and desires on his budget. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to change the ribbon on this typewriter.