Oh, how I loathe that word “yet”. I hear it all the time when people see that I don’t use a smartphone. “Oh my gosh! You haven’t gotten one yet! I thought everyone had one by now.“
The primary implication being that someone without a smartphone is “behind the times” or “hasn’t caught up” or, worse, a “Luddite”.
And from the perspective of a techno-utopian, who believes that newer tech is always better, to not be on the treadmill is to be wrong. Like, get with the program, man. How are you going to scan this QR code?
But we know better. We know that newer is neither worse nor better. It’s just newer.
Instead, I suggest we turn this narrative around. Because we could just as easily be called early adopters.
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