iPocalypse Now Redux

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Is Madison Avenue as doomed as Wall Street? "If the lasting image of the 1930s is photographer Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' holding her head in her hand as her children cling to her, the iconic image of the Postmodern Depression will be—click—that of a recent college graduate wearing flip-flops and a catatonic expression, gazing through the window of the Apple store in an upscale shopping mall at THE MOMENT HE REALIZES HE ACTUALLY CAN'T HAVE the latest i-Booger. Like, at all." [The Daily Beast]