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To play devil's advocate, what ever happened to making a mix tape from songs on the radio to play in your large battery powered Walkman on the go?

"Why can't we just do it the old way" isn't the best argument for halting attempts at innovation. Before we can have the IoT we see in movies, we have to have gradual iterative progress in the way we think of/use the tech.




"Making a mix tape from songs on the radio to play in your large battery powered Walkman on the go?" was never a design principle, and "why can't we just do it the old way" is not the argument being made above.


The last line of the post I commented on: Whatever happened to making a grocery list before you leave?

Which summarizes to: Why can't we just do it the old way

To which I responded. Again, summary: it's silly to complain about new things being different than the things that came before them, and the only way to make the new stuff great is to make a bunch of new stuff and see what sticks.


> Which summarizes to: Why can't we just do it the old way

To me, that summarises to Why can't we do it the simple way?


Again, why use a combustion engine that requires fuel when you can just use the horses we already have?


Horses are a combustion engine that requires fuel, and a fairly high maintenance one, low power-to-weight ratio combustion engine, at that.

On the plus side, they run on renewable rather than fossil fuels.


Point: missed.


To stretch the "whatever happened to good old days things mentality" a little bit further (in the pure devil's advocate spirit): whatever happened to preparing a meal for oneself the way you see a person is doing in this video [1].

I mean, IoT will have a great potential to provide meaningful services with a great deal of convenience only if the things become as inter-operable as plug-pins and sockets.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvQttEjfYtM




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