[aerohead]

In a capitalist nation, when 3.5 will be soon able to be purchased for 1.0, then 1.0 will have been superannuated, just as with wagon trains, the Pony Express, telegraphs, and whale oil lamps.
No one today laments the end of whale oil. There are no protestors in the streets rioting over the loss of the 'Nantucket Sleigh Ride.' There are no whale oil lobbyists operating inside Washington D.C..
At some juncture, no one will lament the end of ICE. And while there 'ARE' ICE lobbyists inside Washington today, those that they're paid by, realize that the days of the 'piston' are clearly numbered.
It's just the Second Law of Thermodynamics working within the marketplace.
As illiterate, and innumerate as Americans have been, they're waking up to the notion that 3.5 is better than 1.0.
And once people get notions in their head, all bets are off.
Tyranny of cognition.