RicodJour
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
On Jun 10, 1:05 am, "Jack May" <jack....@comcast.net> wrote:
> "RicodJour" <ricodj...@worldemail.com> wrote in message
>
> > If I'm a bike advocate, what are you, a gas advocate? I haven't made
> > up my mind whether you are a smart man with an unbelievably literal
> > and narrow-minded view, or you're just slow. No one said anything
> > about abandoning any infrastructure or eliminating delivery trucks,
> > and either event wouldn't destroy our economy or civilization. People
> > are amazingly adaptable...most people.
>
> I am a high tech engineer and I am in categories called "innovators" and
> "early adopters". By pushing bikes, you are in a category called
> "technology laggards". Technology laggard think that long obsolete
> technology is superior to present and future technology. I think
> essentially the opposite that newer technology is better than older
> technology since it would be killed off if it were inferior to past
> technology.
>
> Technology acceptance is an evolutionary process and it is extremely
> unlikely that a technology that is inferior to past technology would ever
> become dominant. Obsolete technologies, because they are inferior for
> most modern requirements tend to die off because people do not use them
> since they don't meet the needs of most people any longer.
>
> Technology laggards in all technology fields act just like you. They
> constantly lie and make up theories that are unlikely to every be true.
> They are forced to do this to justify their support for inferior obsolete
> technology. Technology laggards are about 15 percent of the population.
> The other 85 percent of the population tend to totally dismiss the arguments
> of technology laggards who seldom understand why they and their arguments
> are rejected so often.
Too bad that there aren't any _real_ engineers in the bicycle world.
I guess they're all just mucking about there since they couldn't get
any 'high tech engineer' jobs. Damn laggards!
R
> "RicodJour" <ricodj...@worldemail.com> wrote in message
>
> > If I'm a bike advocate, what are you, a gas advocate? I haven't made
> > up my mind whether you are a smart man with an unbelievably literal
> > and narrow-minded view, or you're just slow. No one said anything
> > about abandoning any infrastructure or eliminating delivery trucks,
> > and either event wouldn't destroy our economy or civilization. People
> > are amazingly adaptable...most people.
>
> I am a high tech engineer and I am in categories called "innovators" and
> "early adopters". By pushing bikes, you are in a category called
> "technology laggards". Technology laggard think that long obsolete
> technology is superior to present and future technology. I think
> essentially the opposite that newer technology is better than older
> technology since it would be killed off if it were inferior to past
> technology.
>
> Technology acceptance is an evolutionary process and it is extremely
> unlikely that a technology that is inferior to past technology would ever
> become dominant. Obsolete technologies, because they are inferior for
> most modern requirements tend to die off because people do not use them
> since they don't meet the needs of most people any longer.
>
> Technology laggards in all technology fields act just like you. They
> constantly lie and make up theories that are unlikely to every be true.
> They are forced to do this to justify their support for inferior obsolete
> technology. Technology laggards are about 15 percent of the population.
> The other 85 percent of the population tend to totally dismiss the arguments
> of technology laggards who seldom understand why they and their arguments
> are rejected so often.
Too bad that there aren't any _real_ engineers in the bicycle world.
I guess they're all just mucking about there since they couldn't get
any 'high tech engineer' jobs. Damn laggards!
R