If the iPod is to be a tool of resistance for underprivileged classes, the aura of prestige and a high price tag-both of which keep the device in the upper economic strata of societies-must first be demolished. While a Marxist deconstruction of commodity fetishism would eventually achieve this goal, an even newer, more imperative technology will most likely take the place of the iPod, relegating it to the backwoods of technological fashion and innovation, at which point other questions will arise.