Reading this article made me think of Jared Diamond's assertion that invention is the mother of necessity, not the other way around. Before anyone gripes about

Reading this article made me think of Jared Diamond's assertion that invention is the mother of necessity, not the other way around. Before anyone gripes about outdated technology you need to ask yourself a question: what's so great about the new stuff? I'm not saying there isn't an answer to that question (I'm also not saying that there is), what I'm saying is that the answer needs to be better communicated before anything is going to change.