Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die

kudyadi writes "Technology Review has an interesting article on, as the title suggests, ten technologies that we continue using despite advances made in the same. The best example is that of analog watches, "Compared to today's digital timepieces, old-fashioned, sweep-hand watches are pathetic one-trick ponies. Digital-watch wearers can check temperature, altitude, and the time in Tokyo, play tunes and games, and send messages. Can wristwatch videoconferencing, Web surfing, and tarot readings be far off? But what digital watches can't do, according to sweep-hand proponents, is display the time and context as elegantly and intuitively as an analog model."" Interesting counterpoint to this post from a few years back about technologies that didn't manage to hang on. And Bruce Sterling has a short list of ones he'd like to see go away, too ;)

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Re:Snob

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Yes. You can pay for a $1100 watch, pay for an insurance policy, pay for an appraisal, pay for it to be repaired, and end up having paid out over a thousand dollars for something thats just supposed to tell time.

Or, you can shell out $10 for a cheapo timex that will tell time just as well, but will break in 3 years. At which time you buy another. Total price over your life of maybe $150.

Seems like I got a watch that just tells time, and saved $1000. The advantage to the expecsive analogs is what exactly?