Jack May said:"RicodJour" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
Quoted message said:If I'm a bike advocate, what are you, a gas advocate? I haven't made
up my mind whether you are a smart man with an unbelievably literal
and narrow-minded view, or you're just slow. No one said anything
about abandoning any infrastructure or eliminating delivery trucks,
and either event wouldn't destroy our economy or civilization. People
are amazingly adaptable...most people.I am a high tech engineer and I am in categories called "innovators" and
"early adopters". By pushing bikes, you are in a category called
"technology laggards". Technology laggard think that long obsolete
technology is superior to present and future technology. I think
essentially the opposite that newer technology is better than older
technology since it would be killed off if it were inferior to past
technology.Technology acceptance is an evolutionary process and it is extremely
unlikely that a technology that is inferior to past technology would ever
become dominant. Obsolete technologies, because they are inferior for
most modern requirements tend to die off because people do not use them
since they don't meet the needs of most people any longer.Technology laggards in all technology fields act just like you. They
constantly lie and make up theories that are unlikely to every be true.
They are forced to do this to justify their support for inferior obsolete
technology. Technology laggards are about 15 percent of the population.
The other 85 percent of the population tend to totally dismiss the arguments
of technology laggards who seldom understand why they and their arguments
are rejected so often.
Too bad that there aren't any _real_ engineers in the bicycle world.
I guess they're all just mucking about there since they couldn't get
any 'high tech engineer' jobs. Damn laggards!
R