Ponderous

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Derek's law of technological ennui:

The span of time that a technology remains "cool" is inversely proportional to it's initial coolness.

The "cooler" a piece of tech is, the faster it will get adopted, and the quicker it becomes commodity, and therefore unremarkable. I just read this phrase on sombody's blog:

"Now when the service techs come in after a hard day repairing icemakers and such they just jack into the LAN, double-click the rsync icon and enter their password. They next day they are refreshed and so is the data on their laptops."

Sci fi a few years back, and unremarkable the day after it was implemented.