iPhones on the beach, and other uses for silicon implants

If it sounds improbable that everything you’ve piled into Facebook might evaporate in ten years, then consider: one of the biggest websites of the late 90’s is about to get deleted. At the end of October, Yahoo will pull the plug on GeoCities, the service that over a million people used to set up webpages late in the last century. On October 27, the whole thing will simply cease to exist. It will, as we say in the industry, go poof.