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Tech-rushing! (lemmy.world)

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're currently leapfrogging again, skipping the Industrial Revolution and going more or less directly from the primary economic sector (agriculture) to the tertiary one (services) thanks to tech import.

[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I lived in Togo for 2 years and I noticed this. My go-to example was music: they skipped records, 8 tracks, cassette tapes, cds, and everyone went straight to having music on their phone.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In second-world countries like mine, we didn't skip technologies much but avoided format wars and just ended up with the winner:

~~Betamax~~ VHS
~~MiniDisc~~ USB flash storage, SD cards
~~iTunes~~ YouTube and pirated MP3s
~~HD DVD~~ Blu-ray − just kidding, piracy again for most
~~Game consoles~~ PC because it's cheaper to stay up-to-date with hardware and games (not everyone though)

If tech moves too fast, people get annoyed. Up until 2008, one could use just about any old TV, perhaps with a UHF-VHF converter and a PAL-decoding mod for SECAM sets. Now that they need a new digital tuner every few years because wireless and video tech is evolving fast and we're no longer staying behind, they keep complaining.