You're an odd specimen to have avoided upgrade-itis.
If you buy into
New and Improved it won't be long until the same thing is
New and Improved again, and you wish you'd waited, except when something
really is New and Improved, and then you may not want to be an
Early Adopter based on the results of your prior experiences with
New and Improved.
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The faster things change, the more they stay the same: Let's take 20 year gaps:
1900-1920 - Cars! Radio! Airplanes! Sky Scrapers! Stock Market!
1920 - 1940 - Air Conditioning! Refrigerators! Air Travel! Intercontinental Highways! Art Deco!
1940-1960 - Air conditioning in Cars! Jet travel! Satellites! Space Race! Nuclear Everything! Non-Stop Interstate Highways!
1960-1980 -
Color TV! Imported Goods! Home Stereo! FM Stereo Radio! Able to buy stuff on
Sunday even in Alabama! Direct Dial Telephone Network! Beer and Wine at the Grocery Store! Radial Tires! Cars that don't rust out in a year!
1980-2000 - Computers in everything! Internet! World Wide Web! Cell Phones! China becomes our Buddy!
2000 - 2020 - Nothing Really New, just
New and Improved, China becomes our Enemy again.
2020 - 2040 - I'll likely be signing off someplace there, even if I'm not
quite dead yet, good luck!