Unable to compete with the purchasing power and supply chain prowess of national chains, the mom and pop shop seemed destined for the dust heap.

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Perhaps the Flip can still be saved, wrested from the dust heap of technology the same way Polaroid film was saved by a group of fans that formed The Impossible Project.

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Do we want to look back decades from now and recognize that at this critical juncture in history, America, through its inaction, cemented its future on the dust heap of former world powers, including the Roman, Ottoman, British or Soviet empires?

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