Comment This is just a trend (Score 1) 1162
Really all this is all about is having a medium which fits all our needs - durability, performance, capacity, universalness, etc.. When this happens the trend of constant upgrades will end. Really in the grand scale of things we're in a relatively small "ramp up" phase in our technology. One day it will be sophisticated enough to accomodate all these needs and then this trend will end. No sense speculating on it and drawing all kinds of curves and making this pattern into some sort of holy thing (this is our problem in the first place). The other part is here is that it's obvious that I should not have pay full price for content I previously purchased just to have it copied to a new medium. This is just a flaw of capitalism that is holding us back from change - if it were really up to the people this would have changed long ago, but business resists any change which reduces profits and forces them to adapt to a new model. It's up to us to force business to adapt. People will complain that this destroys jobs but I think that's garbage because there are plenty of jobs to be done that never get done because all the money is going into fake BS like paying these companies immense profits to recopy their old stuff onto new media.