(December 7, 2015 at 9:33 pm)abaris Wrote: As with everything else, as long as there's money to be made with the old tech, the new tech won't prevail. Otherwise we would drive electro cars for at least a decade by now.
Uhm, no we wouldn't - the range of electric cars and charge times are still atrocious, because battery technology is progressing extremely slowly. And if we did all drive electric cars for a decade - we'd have mountains of toxic dead car batteries to deal with by now.
When the technology is good enough - it will prevail. Sure - the oil industry will do what it can to hold on to at least some of the car market, but ultimately the better, cheaper and more convenient technology will become standard.
There's still money to be made in selling newspapers and I'm sure the paper industry (allegedly powerful enough to hold back the "miracle fabric" - hemp - for decades) should be doing a lot to hinder electronic media - yet we all have cable TV and broad-band now.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
