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11-06.-2008, 05:11 AM
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Re: Travel Radius using cell phone data
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 |
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