Only the Digital Dies; Technological Extinction  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8820 (Jan. 2013), page 12.
Topik: Nostalgia; Technological Change; Office Supplies; International; Niche Marketing; Antiques; Culture

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Innovation tends to create new niches, rather than refill those that already exist. So technologies may become marginal, but they rarely go extinct. And today the little niches in which old technologies take refuge are ever more viable and accessible, thanks to the Internet and the fact that production no longer needs to be so mass; making small numbers of obscure items is growing easier. On top of that, a widespread technostalgia seeks to preserve all the ways people have ever done anything, simply because they are kind of neat. Steam locomotives; trebuchets; papyrus scrolls: all boast bands of enthusiasts making or restoring them, and sometimes making a nice profit selling the results to kindred aficionados with money to spare. As a result technologies from all the way back to the stone age persist and even flourish in the modern world.

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