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Yet now we find ourselves in an impossible position. In almost every sphere, the technology we have is so good that any improvements can only be incremental. I
by ryanwaggoner 18y ago
Yet now we find ourselves in an impossible position. In almost every sphere, the technology we have is so good that any improvements can only be incremental.
I don't believe this for a second. I'm sure people said the same thing about smartphones before the iPhone. Yes, some categories of technology are mature, but innovation is also about the creation of entirely new categories that we can't currently foresee.
- donaq 18y agoI agree. I can recall a time when I thought I would never need a hard disk bigger than 20GB and went "meh" when 40GB hard disks came out. upgrading from an iPod that stores your entire music collection to one that can store your collection twice is nowhere near as exciting. It is, because my collection is now twice as large.
- electromagnetic 18y agoI got one of the 40GB and did the exact same when the 80GB came out. I personally don't store that much music, but I love video. So it now completely sucks that I can't store much video on it, certainly not enough for me not to spend an hour every week changing up the videos. I guess it says something when my 500GB external hard drive isn't big enough anymore. My next computer purchase is going to be a 4 bay NAS, then I can upgrade it 1TB at a time.
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