I don't know how to better explain this, but as I get older I find I just have less energy to address all the things. My worldview gets larger and my energy levels become less and eventually I need to just 'stop' progressing in a certain activity. It could be re-learning the TV's remote control like my grandparents, or it could be re-learning how to drive with an EV touchscreen on modern cars, or it could be re-learning an operating system that just presents a mountain where you just say: "I can't do it this time."

Sure, if you ignore all the time you're wasting on the status quo. You are still using energy on all the problems of the existing system.

For a remote or a car there is no benefit to changing. For Windows there is.

To be fair, General Motors is built off of the idea of the wheel, which I believe is an original idea

I'm not so sure, their 'original' wheel was just a refinement to the round boulders that already existed on the planet and the mechanical advantages naturally existing in that form.

By that logic, the Taggart Baking Co. should have been one of the richest companies ever, since everyone compares their product to it as the greatest thing since.

Chillicothe Baking Company.

Not only is TV alive and well, we're even getting channels back with the content splintered across multiple streaming platforms.

> Software is pretty good. It remembers everything, perfectly, forever.

This is not a true statement and never was. Bitrot is real

It's never a disruption. It's just a reimplementation of an existing thing. Disruption is just synonymous with you wanting a piece of the pie.

The best part is that if my phone dies, I have no way to hail an unlicensed taxi and I'm well and truly stranded.

No, people will just take note of your childlike behavior and plan around it accordingly.

Oh wow, that sounds super duper cereal! The consequences of ignoring your vast power in the comments section should never be underestimated!

30 years ago is 1996. Amazon had been around for 2 years (they were incorporated in 1994).

> 30 years ago is 1996.

as an aside, fall of '96 is when i started college. There was an elementary school on my drive to class where I would routinely get caught in drop-off traffic. All those kids i remember crossing the street are at least in their mid 30s now. ...I think i need to lay down and it's not even 9AM my local time.

You're not going to get fired. Don't worry about it :)

Almost 3 years too late for that warning.

Then the human should write the code.