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organicAnt  ·  3460 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Electric Car Infographic With Ton Of Fun Stats

One could argue that the mobile phone was not a new tech but an iteration of an existing tech. There were already phones and people already had a set of expectations of phones which mobiles did not meet. Being heavy and not holding charge for long were not desirable properties.

The email example I gave, also fits into your category of more complicated new tech replacing incumbent popular tech. Email had plenty of shortcomings, it was not intuitive or easy to use initially. And it was not expected that it would ever become widely used.

As a reminder that improved tech is often not appreciated by everyone, I leave you with a henry Ford quote relevant to the topic. The emergence of the car industry and how it was perceived relative to the main method of transportation at the time, horses:

    "My ‘gasoline buggy’ was the first and for a long time the only automobile in Detroit. It was considered to be something of a nuisance, for it made a racket and it scared horses."