Is it normal to not care about new technologies?

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  • Jeaneathean
    9 years ago | pl

    There is a great obsession with having to have the newest and latest of everything, isn't there?

    People are suckers for promotions and adverts.

    If it ain't broke, don't fix it....

    And as for smartphones.... Any and every public place is full of people glued to the things. The last time I went to the pub every single person was on the damned thing all the time rather than actually talking to one another.

    So: to answer your question - yes it is normal.

    (I still listen to cassettes, by the way.)

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    • EccentricWeird
      9 years ago | pl

      Well, cassettes age pretty badly, and their sound quality wasn't very good to begin with. They're also cumbersome and need to be changed frequently.

      Even 10 years ago you could buy a USB device the size of your thumb for 100 bucks that would hold and play more songs than a whole box of cassettes and without an external player.

      I understand not going for the 'latest and greatest', but please join us in the 21st century.

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      • disthing
        9 years ago | pl

        Agreed, there's resisting new technology when it provides no greater benefit - and then there's resisting new technology despite all its benefits.

        There's certainly a hell of a lot of redundant tech out there, but why not have the best of both worlds? Pick the best of the new to replace the worst of the old, ignore the worst of the new and keep the best of the old.

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        • Jeaneathean
          9 years ago | pl

          Look at how prized an asset a collection of vinyl records is now after everyone first put them in the loft and then binned them in the early nineties.

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        • Lynxikat
          9 years ago | pl

          I don't think OP is completely resisting new technology, but one of my biggest pet peeves are people who absolutely just refuse to adapt or use new technology period, despite the good that it can to- or people who just turn their nose up at new technology, too.

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      • Jeaneathean
        9 years ago | pl

        Thanks for your response.

        Don't get me wrong: I know the earth's not flat.

        But I can still listen to tapes from thirty (or more) years ago,and they still sound good. Some cassettes of mine still sound better than certain CDs.

        I have (some of the) new tech, but that doesn't mean I am going to abandon my Gerry Rafferty cassette from 1979 or whatever.

        I am a very big fan of 'vintage' music. You try and find some early Luis Russell or King Oliver on a digital medium. Much of it is simply not there. So you are looking at preserving the medium on vinyl or other analogue state. For now.

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      • Jeaneathean
        9 years ago | pl

        Just got an iPad. Still got all my VHS tapes, however. Just to annoy you, really.

        Now I'm off out on my penny-farthing wearing my stovepipe hat.

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      • Goomats
        9 years ago | pl

        I don't think you need to CHOOSE between owning cassettes and a USB device. I mean if you have the cassettes, why not use them. USB devices are useful as well. Keep 'em all.

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    • disthing
      9 years ago | pl

      I was waiting for the bus the other day, me amongst about 8 others.

      Literally everyone else was staring down at their phone. It looked bizarre, almost like they were asleep.

      This happened another couple of times when I was with friends at a night club. I was in a circle with 4 of my friends on the dancefloor, and they were all half-heartedly shuffling whilst looking down at their phones! Why go to dance and then spend the whole time texting? Very odd.

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