Where do you reside on the Innovation Adoption Spectrum?

[NightWatcher]

When a new piece of technology comes out how quick are you to get it?

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	Laggards
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[Binkie The Clown]

1. Pass: Mixed depending on which innovation we're discussing.

A few examples:

1. I built my first home computer from scratch TTL IC parts before the Apple II even existed. It was sooooo cool to have my own computer.

2. I still use a vanilla flip phone and have no intention of adopting any newer "innovation". My pockets aren't big enough for those new monstrosities.

3. You couldn't pay me enough to have one of those talking digital assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, or Microsoft Cortana in my home. What a monumental waste of time and energy!

4. Back in the 90s, no sooner did they appear than I installed "clappers" on my living room lights. What a cool idea! "Clap on! Clap off!" Until the dogs spotted a deer in the front yard and started barking. Then, when the lights started flashing on and off every time they barked, that freaked out the dogs up even more, and so they kept right on barking. Good thing I'm not epileptic! A pox on new technology!

5. I bought a brand new, state-of-the art Sears water-saving washing machine with fancy computer controls for over $1000. After replacing the water pump three times, the forth time the pump went out I hauled it to the scrap metal dealer and replaced it with a used $100 washing machine from St. Vincent DePaul. That was 15 years ago and that $100 washer is still going strong. Fie on new technology.

[rurallib]

2. My position is moving backwards as age and money

become factors.
I think my destination is luddite.

[Coventina]

3. I don't have a smart phone or Netflix, so I think I'm a laggard.

[femmocrat]

10. I don't even understand the term "Innovation Adoption Spectrum" !!

LOL

Was there supposed to be a link to a quiz or something?

I finally did get an iPhone, six months ago. I still don't know what all it does. I always have to ask my husband for help. I miss my user-friendly old cell phone.

[nolabear]

4. Early. Mr. Bear is a computer guy. And we love learning.

Learning how new stuff works is great fun.

[Laffy Kat]

5. Compared to most of you this sounds really petty, but:

Back in the day, before Mary Qaunt, I made my own blue-colored and green nail polish by putting food coloring into regular white polish. I also made my own black polish by putting black model paint into clear polish, but that was kind of a mess.

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. Yeah, I made some green nail polish after Cabaret came out

1972. I wanted to have nails like Liza Minnelli.

[Laffy Kat]

8. Me too!

I was 15 in '72 and loved that movie.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Depends. With computer gear I like to wait until it's been out long enough

to determine how well it really works. I tend to be in the "early majority" category because once it looks like it's something cool that I'd like and that seems to work well, I'll probably go for it.

[Kali]

9. ...

[hunter]

11. All my new technology is diverted from the waste stream.

My mid 'eighties car has a salvage title, many of my clothes were found in thrift stores, my computers and cell phone were discarded by others. I still occasionally use my VCR.

If somebody gave me a brand new Tesla, brand new Apple or Microsoft product, curved screen ultra HD television, or other cutting edge technology I'd give it away quick as I could to someone who cared.

My computers run Linux, which is very similar to the BSD operating systems I used in the late 'seventies.

I think most of the industrial revolution was a terrible mistake.

We humans are eating the planet earth and that will bring about the end of this world civilization many of us now enjoy.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

12. I'm almost 40.

And I love my "toys".