If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
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I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.
Movies are just ridiculously expensive.
The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.
People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.
New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.