I have a bone thats been bothering me for awhile now. And by my guessing, it bothers a lot of you too. How many of you have older machines that are no longer supported? Equipment is no longer made for them? Or the "latest and greatest" software just isn't compatible with them? I know I see that case every day. even my laptop which is merely a year old is completely outdated by the dual-core processors, Windows Vista, and other issues. It cost me $1200 brand new and was top of the line merely 12 months ago. Now its nothing more than a dinosaur.

I guess what I'm getting at is, does the speed that technology moves ever frighten any of you? It moves so fast, that it seems as soon as we buy the "latest" software or new machine, that as soon as we get it home and are happily assembling it while listening the TV, that we hear "NEW!!! Intel Quad-Core Xeon 4.4 GHz processor!" blaring from the speakers of our 10 year old perfectly working Zenith TV. Your heart sinks as you look at the box your shiny new machine came in and see "Haha... Pentium... haha... 4 suck processor" glaring and laughing at you as if it knew it was going to kick dirt in your face as soon as you opened it. Suddenly your new hardware is a dinosaur, and your being fed the latest and greatest technology propaganda again. I remember 10 years ago (the good ol' days?), it would have been 1997, the internet was still blossoming, Yahoo! didn't crash constantly (or if it did, Yahoo! actually cared and tried to fix it), and Windows 3.11 was still in use in a lot of businesses. The "latest" technology seemed to last a lot longer back then, and wasn't subsequently being moved to the next best thing every year.

Point being, do you think that technology may be starting to move too fast? That the general public will soon fall behind out of inability to afford it and the sickening feeling you get in your stomach whenever you see a new ad for some great new hardware/software, and you remember that "It'll just be totally outdated a year from now, so why bother?". Do you think that technologies greatest asset, its speed of advancement, will eventually become an Achilles heel? That it will "advance" itself out of a market base?