Personally, I feel as though modern acceptable standards of near-immediate obsolescence as normal are kind of depressing and abnormal. Seeing technology become

Personally, I feel as though modern acceptable standards of near-immediate obsolescence as normal are kind of depressing and abnormal. Seeing technology become outdated after 3-4 years is kind of amazing in all the wrong ways. Don't get me wrong, I understand that what we're really seeing is explosive advances, and to think about being stuck where we were 3-4 years ago, frozen in time, without permission to advance is a horrible thought. But at the same time, I hate not being about to used something I paid thousands of dollars for, less than five years later, because I scratched a CD-ROM, and downloads for compatible upgraded drivers are not supported.