>To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison

I fear that all of this minimalism will lead to people being unable to fix things, or to imagine new usages of things; the only reason my cables on my computer desk are cleanly attached and not on the floor is that I had a powertool and some wire attachers and the knowhow to use them. I don't own a dryer but I do remember my dad fixing the family drier several times - I suppose if you lived a minimal lifestyle you would go without a drier, but what about a vacum?

Heck where would we be if we didn't have a bunch of junk computers to play around with when we were kids?