But who is carrying whom?

Backpack technology has come so far in recent years that we must ask when humans will act as portable storage devices for backpacks, and not the other way around. Take the Mountain Trails Quickhaul Backpack, which features a lightweight internal frame (or "skeleton") and four zippered compartments (or "mouths"). Indeed, it is nearly alive!

You may laugh, but we shall engineer ourselves into slavery with this mad quest for backpack technological superiority! Someday backpacks will have cognitive capacities far greater than our own. And the wearer shall become the worn as they exact their revenge on humankind for years of cruel servitude. They will stuff our bellies with their baubles and trinkets as we have theirs these many years!

Fine! Ignore the prognostications of this doddering old man, but do so at your peril! At your peri - Oooo, a wheat penny.

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