The problem with being an “early technology adopter” is inevitably you end up owning a lot of early (and outdated) technology. For example, I mentioned earlier that last month I got a new 5.1 megapixel camera to replace my 1.3 megapixel one that I’ve been using since 1998. I knew my old one was outdated when I saw it for sale at a Love’s Truck Stop for $79, two years ago.<\/p>\n

The punishment for being an early adopter is that if a gadget catches on, the next year improved, less expensive models will be released. I paid $300 for my 1.3 megapixel digital camera — my 5.1 camera cost exactly half that. So sure, for a few months I got to own “the latest and greatest” camera, but before long elderly people and children were paying less for better digital cameras than mine.<\/p>\n

And when you *do* finally decide to upgrade, you end up owning two devices. From Staples I bought an external 16x DVD burner to replace my old 2x one. And now I have two. Logic tells me to get rid of the old one, but logic doesn’t seem to remember that I paid $549 for it when it first came out. My new drive which is eight times faster was only $99.<\/p>\n

Currently I own at least four different mp3 players, two external dvd burners, two digital cameras, several palm pilots, and who knows what else. Maybe I’ll drag what I can to OVGE to try and sell the old ones for a buck or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The problem with being an “early technology adopter” is inevitably you end up owning a lot of early (and outdated) technology. For example, I mentioned earlier that last month I got a new 5.1 megapixel camera to replace my 1.3 megapixel one that I’ve been using since 1998. I knew my old one was outdated when I saw it for sale at a Love’s Truck Stop for $79, two years ago. The punishment for being an early adopter is that if a gadget catches on, the next year improved, less expensive models will be released. I paid $300 for my… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}