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Back when I was a serious Devil's Advocate kind of guy, I'd tear into someone like that, trying to verbally brow-beat them into seeing reason (mine, of course).
These days, when I hear comments like these, I just ignore them. Because I stop to remember things like Royal Typewriter keyboards... hand-cranked washing machines... the slide-rule... the mechanical cash-box... the quill pen... the wooden wheel... the clay tablet... and many other technological items that people at the time insisted were perfect as they were, but were eventually supplanted by better technology. It's simple evolution... and just as with organisms, you evolve, or you die.
This is why my adopted theorem is: "You get used to what you want to get used to." People make excuses for things they don't want to do, and if they don't want to, I don't feel like arguing with them. They are denying themselves, holding themselves back, and that's their right. I'd rather spend time with people who are interested in the future.
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