Somewhere in a cabinet, a drawer, or a rack, there is a piece of consumer electronics that still works. It powers on. It still does the thing it was bought to do. Its capacitors and connectors are perfectly healthy. And yet it is finished. Not broken. Not worn out. Simply no longer allowed to become anything more than it already is. That’s a stranger kind of obsolescence than the one we’re used to talking about, and the real question isn’t whether it’s happening. It’s who decided, why they were allowed to, and how much further into ordinary life that…