Any number of innovations are transient rubbish, that's true enough. But every now and again something comes along that provides significant options for making life better, if used sensibly. For example, the stuff that makes it possible for the Mudcat to exist. And Svetlana.

No hassle to remove her from the car, or stick her and her connections in the glove compartment.

One thing though - ain't it a pain that the phone books don't include postcodes, to make it easier entering destinations? I imagine it's some cockeyed business about the Post Office owning the copyright, and the phone companies not being willing to pay to use them. The result is we all are deprived of a useful convenience.