Wednesday, 23 November 2011

what

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8646699.stm - The mystery of the mega-selling floppy disk by Jason Palmer, BBC News, April 2010

"There are people who ride technology for as long as it can be ridden without falling over."

Are there really? I think that "old habits [do indeed] die hard" but surely our hands are forced when the technology of today shuns these 'habits' so entirely. Essentially there isn't anything that outperforms the floppy but still it finds itself supplanted. Why?

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