I just saw a very good short movie, this one, that in a very easy way described the problematic around our electronic habits. That the companies want us to buy new stuff rather than fix them when they brake, but also that the companies don’t makes stuff that holds for longer than 18 months. And here the storyteller does a very claver comparison. She let us know that there is a man called Gordon E. Moore who predicted that every 18 month, the  chip performance would double it capacity and this is now called the "Moore's Law". The storyteller says that the companies has misheard this and think that it is called "Buy more Law". I found this amusing.

This movie was very good just to wake me up a bit. I am very aware that I always want new stuff all the time. I am not satisfied for very long with my new things. And phones are a good example.

You buy a phone and sign up for 24 month, but after 18 month it is broken and it is so expansive to fix it when you can just sign up for another 24 month and have the latest phone! I have heard this plenty of times from friends.

For a long time I was so irritated that all phones had their own chargers and if you run out of battery when you were over at a friends house you just had to wait till you got home so that you could charge it because your friend maybe had a Nokia while you had an Ericsson.

I found this to be even a bigger problem when I got my first smartphone.

No battery life at all and every smartphone had a different charger... This has now changed!
Unless you still have an Iphone…  

Anyway, this was an easy but still so good movie and it felt very right in time. But I think I have seen a change in how we handle our electronics these days. At least I don’t feel that stress over having the latest computer, or the newest phone. I actually think it is way cooler if you have a phone that is over 24 month and still going strong! Yeah right.... I don’t think I have ever seen one. Let mine be the first! It is 18 month old now. Lets make it 24!