The call-and-response between trumpeters Kenneth Terry and Gregg Stafford during Sunday's Batiste tribute drove home another point: The festival is still definedby intimate, shared moments we need never take for granted.
"The fact you can pack more technology into different consumer electronics devices, on an unrelenting and steady pace definedby Moore's Law, means there will always be another gee-whiz gadget that will intoxicate, " says IDC analyst Crawford Del Prete.
Ruthless price-cutting at supermarkets means consumers have grown accustomed to eating too much. (In the late 19th century, Europeans already thought Americans ate three or four times more than was necessary.) The most damaging consequence is that by 2000 31% of American adults were obese, with another 16% defined as overweight.