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Originally Posted by tompe
But new technology is often not better than old. It can be worse or it can be as good but different. So just because something is new is not a reason to start using it.
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Quite so - I didn't mean that we should adopt new things for the sake of newness.
All I'm suggesting is that to describe the positive attributes of previous technologies - such as a love for old books (which I share) - is not to make much of an argument for retaining them for future requirements.