[selectodude]

If you look at the historical ratio of income to the price of computers we're literally orders of magnitude wealthier. You can't just pick one data point and blast off.

[JoeJonathan]

I mean, it’s not entirely implausible that housing is a better index of cost of living than computers.

[Xeoncross]

Generally, regulated industries provide a better measurement (housing, healthcare, food, etc..) than unregulated ones (TV's, computers, etc..)