The Tool Event Horizon

[heliumbreath]

I was recently holding a tool that I've owned for quite a lot of years, and thinking that they don't make quality like that anymore, and that led to a line of thought that the design lifetime of stuff may be dropping fast enough that we can predict the date of the Singularity or End Of The World As We Know It by projecting when all of our stuff will pass its best-before date and fall apart together.
On the other hand, I think that's all idle speculation and provably silly.