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The Surprising Truth: Technology Is Aging in Reverse
• http://www.wired.com, By Nassim N. TalebWe may be trained to think that the new is about to overcome the old, but that’s just an optical illusion. Because the failure rate of the new is much, much higher than the failure rate of the old. When you see a young child and an old adult, you can be confident that the younger will likely survive the elder.
Yet with something nonperishable like a technology, that’s not the case.