Well no tech really goes extinct. Kevin Kelly has a great piece on it: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/technologies_do.php http://www.kk.org/the

Well no tech really goes extinct. Kevin Kelly has a great piece on it: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/technologies_do.php http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/technologies_... It just moves to hobbyists / fringe. Mainline agriculture hasn't saved seeds for a long time (coming up on 100 years) for many crops due to the improved performance of hybrids. Seed saving is brought up w/r/t GMOs because it makes for a better narrative. People actually originally attacked hybrids with the same approach ... farmers wouldn't be able to save seeds since their saved seeds would be worse than the hybrids.