If you want to see content on a site that uses Flash, write to the site's owners and/or developers to let them know that you're unhappy that you can't see their content. Many sites are already "getting it" and are starting to move to standards-based designs.
Indeed. ...or I may use a nettop, or a laptop, or a desktop.
But that's not the point I was making, tough. One less feature in a device is one less feature, and that's the bottom line today.
Should that bring to a "better future" I may be ok with it, somehow, but even that is uncertain.