What will replace marble and granite in the kitchen?

Years ago, I asked Tom what on earth would replace the expensive marble and/or granite kitchen counters that we all need to have. I suggested it might be silver or gold or copper, but yesterday, reading my new issue of House Beautiful magazine, I found out what it was: petrified wood. Yes, a product that literally takes millions of years of mineralization to produce. So, this Belair spec house has a huge kitchen island made with petrified wood, "cut on its side to give a clean line--" Wow. Does Oprah have one of these in her house?

A tiny side table of petrified wood costs about 1200 dollars at Neiman Marcus and looks like a tree stump.

Maybe it's engineered petrified wood, which takes only four days to make with an extraordinarily hot oven. Also expensive. But wouldn't you want the real thing? Zirconias instead of diamonds? I think diamonds.

I'm going to be petrified when I die.