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Technologies change MUCH faster today than they did just ten years ago
I know for a fact that my grandmother would disagree with you.
It is a matter of perception.
What to me as a kid felt like a slow progression of technology has now today impressed upon my adult perception just how fast any technology is improved. I think alot of things have come along fast regardless of the 'age' we live in.
What working machine factories did to improve mass production of toys in the early 1900s, we now say computers are the 'machines' that have improved xx efficiency in our era.
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I don't think you'll find things sticking around as long as you used to.
And where exactly did the LPs go?
There are tons of people still using them, listening to them, selling and buying them. Companies in Germany still make $20,000 record players.
I don't think that cds will be any different 20 years from now. I certainly do not plan on changing over my cd collection to some new technology in 20 years just because it exists.
That's a wasteful attitude of this North American 'consumerism/capitalism' style of living.
We will choke on that waste and to some extent, in many ways, we already have.
Does it show that i've been inundated with contaminant research lately?
