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10 ‘great’ technologies products back with hindsight
Looking back with 20/20 hindsight, it’s clear many products people thought were great at the time don’t look so great any more. In fact most weren’t all that hot when new. Yet many continue to worship them as if they were even better than sliced bread.
Well, enough of that. Here are ten technologies that don’t deserve all those accolades. Join us as we stumble down memory lane and tip over a few sacred cows.
10. Vinyl records (1948)
We’re not big fans of compact discs or evangelists for MP3s. But the utter devotion “audio purists” pay to those hissing, popping, scratched-up slags of warped plastic earns vinyl a spot on our curmudgeon’s top 10.
“Sure, vinyl records sound warmer than digital, whatever that means to you,” says Troy Davis, CTO for coupon marketing site CoupSmart (and a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music). “But that’s because of low-level distortion inherent in the process of scraping vinyl to reproduce complex, high-frequency information, not some magical hippie goodness that comes from the forces of nature.”
9. Segway PT (2001)
It was supposed to revolutionize personal transportation. Jeff Bezos was an early investor, and Steve Jobs allegedly predicted future cities would be designed around them. But when the first Segways rolled off the production lines, most of us uttered a collective “Huh?” Who uses them today? Tour guides, Google employees, mall cops (at least, the Hollywood version), and a handful of stubborn Segway devotees who’ve managed to rack up nearly 4 million miles on themâ
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