In article , "Q.G. de Bakker"
wrote:

People simply do no want to be "lumbered" with that which other people
discard as "old hat". And they're right, there is no reason why they should.
(That alone, without even knowing what the thing involved is, is probably
enough to create an instant dislike of the one thing c.q. a want for the
other. Girard's "mimetism", and all that. ;-))
Anyway, it's the way history has shown us things have a tendency to go: new
markets will embrace new technology, leaving the old markets struggling
behind, because the money there is already/still tied up in old technology.

In part, that explains why we have tens of thousands of miles of dark
cable running all over this country.