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* The Computer, a machine capable of performing incredibly complex arithmetic and decision logic, primarily sees use doing a workless infinite loop and managing resources that may one day be used. Even in the case of people who actually use computers for things, most of the time it's the same old boring stuff over and over again. They want to do their accounts, or write a letter, when the machine may be capable of creating sapient or sentient thought, or just comparing your personal data to millions of other people and trying to figure out what kind of beer you'd want.
** And [[The Internet Is for Porn|porn.]] Can't forget the porn.
** Oh, it gets used for the important stuff, too, like doing simulations for engineers and scientists. It's just that they're so cheap nowadays that the [[Mundane Utility]] of being able to do silly stuff like editing [[
** [[It Gets Worse]]. The Brain, the most marvelous organ in your body, capable of incredible feats of complex movement coordination, communication, image and sound analysis, and decision-making, primarily sees use reading [[
*** [[Running Gag|And porn. Can't forget the porn.]]
* Any science fiction full-body alteration device. Yes, they do occasionally forget that [[Reed Richards Is Useless]] and start marketing it to transsexuals, but fail to recognize that a device capable of making such thorough rearrangements of adult bodies ''might'' be engineered for more than appearance - like, say, ''immortality''.
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