The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, creating a world of surgically-enhanced 81-inch busts, steroid-enhanced athletes, day trading disasters (bang!), special effects replacing content, the Banality Race to get rumors/innuendo/trivia published before everyone else, 10,000 tulips blooming on CNBC, juiced baseballs...

More this. More that. More for me. Me me me me. Some call it progress.

With apologies to Linda Perry, for this writeup should have belonged to her.