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Originally Posted by ApK
A couple quick comments following the slightly off-top tangents:
1. My car is a 2002 model. It's a approaching 200,000 miles, and I hope to keep it going as long as possible. Lately the trend seems to be encouraging people to buy new cars for reasons of financing, fashion, features, or fuel economy, not by artificially rendering previous models obsolete. That's fine.
2. Light bulbs: My biggest fear about the new, wonderful push toward LED lighting, is that, while the LEDs will last 10s or 100s of thousands of hours, manufactures will make the driver components and internal connections as cheaply as possible, ensuring that they fail long before the LEDs would, thereby undoing the best thing to happen to lighting since Edison.
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We also drive a 2002 car. My hope is it will last until we no longer need to buy a car but Uber-like self-driving electric cars put an end to the automotive industry as we know it, and car ownership is a thing of the past.
As for electronics, I'm using a 10 year old Toshiba laptop to manage my ebooks. A 9 year old Dell desktop for printing. Both had upgrade-able ram and allowed for installing another operating system (Linux). The Cloud does much of the heavy computer lifting now, so if you have a working browser you are pretty much set except for a few specialty fields and for computer gamers. We don't need new tablets because 2-3 year old tablets still work fine. Phones could enter that same category of longer-life, not as long as a car, but cloud computing can and will make it possible, only if they are not made to where you cannot replace batteries or otherwise tweak the devices.