At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.
The future attack scenarios are already here, and consumers must be warned about them, countered Catalin Cosoi, head of BitDefender's Online Threats Lab.
Best buy is promoting its Geek Squad, promising shoppers before they buy that complicated electronic thingamajig that its employees will hold their hands through the installation process and beyond.
In most of the preindustrial world, the problem of different resource distribution was resolved by long-distance trade networks over which the end consumer exercised little control.
By offering services to help expand the longevity of their products, they' re promising quality and durability to consumers, and receiving the reputational gains for being environmentally friendly.