Imagine that it is the year 1979. The portable cassette player has just been released, and the public goes crazy. "Wonderful!" they say. "I love Disco music, and I love that I can carry my favorite Disco tapes with me!" A manufacturer creates a sells a wildly popular device called the "Discoman".

In a few short years, though, the popularity of Disco crashes. No one wants to hear the thumping beat and prominent bass lines any more. Engineers create a new portable music player, based on CDs. The public response is anemic- "I'm just not interested in Disco anymore." Sales are poor. Technology advances, and the MP3 player is developed. Despite the fact that it can hold hundreds of songs of any type, it is named the "Disco3 player" and is only sold in the Disco section of music stores. Manufacturers make categories for tiny differences in Disco variations, but all other music is simply labeled "Other" and is unsearchable. The devices are only given as presents by ignorant grandparents, and most are either ignored, or wind up in Thrift Stores for 10 dollars.

That's the story of the Fully Automatic Cooking Robot. You probably know it as the "bread machine". The cooking robot was invented in the 1980's, and is solely marketed on the ability to make bread. You can make anything you want- as long as it is bread! White bread. Wheat Bread. Gluten Free bread. The cooking robot can add ingredients at precise times for you, so you can make nut bread. Or raisin bread. Or sesame seed bread. The fully programmable timer lets you start the machine any time, so you can wake up to bread. The cooking robot has a powerful motor, so it can mix anything- stiff doughs, wet doughs, even very sticky dough. All get kneaded into bread. The heating element is controllable and precise- do you want your bread crust light or dark? Recently, the cooking robot had a new button added, so you can make jam. To put on your bread, of course. Or a cake button, because cakes are basically sweet bread.

Is anyone else offended by this? 10 buttons on my MP3 player, and all of them Disco. DiscoVolumeUp. NextDiscoTrack. DiscoPlaylist.

What if I want something more than just disco?