Survey Results - When new, bleeding edge tech is announced how do you feel?

You can be interested without being an early adopter though.

Kevin

Certainly possible - but like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" saga, I've just stopped listening, or more accurately, I purge my mental cache. Why track ephemera? There are hoards of "me me me" fools standing in lines for days to buy little more than a model number or 'savvy developers' downloading the language-of-the-week. Those that survive a year or two might be worth a thought. The rest? Ephemera. I'd rather play Dungeon Crawl.

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Yes, most new ideas will bite the dust. I'm not interested in everything that pops up but I am interested in some - especially if it's not too far from what I'm already using commercially. But as to how far I go with it - the constraint is whether it looks like there's a chance I might get to use it commercially. That can be difficult to judge.

A lot of the time, though, I file stuff mentally and wait a year or so to see whether it's a thing. Smile | :)

Kevin

I wonder who voted for Excited.. hahaha
Laugh | :laugh:

People who either never hear about the newest tech announcements or who are always excited.
I'm not sure which of those I'd prefer Smile | :)

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I almost did but then realised that's not always the case. I'm excited sometimes. So I voted Interested instead.

Kevin

Haha I so agree with you Kev! Smile | :)

When I was a student, I probably would have.

I remember my excitedness over some of the books published then, about brand new machine architectures that ended up as megaflops (432, anyone?), or language developments (Concurrent Pascal, with all the truly high level synchronization mechanisms designed into the language), or really well designed communication protocols (I still don't understand why ATM failed, and DQDB had some really attractive features).

And so on. All of those surely did make me excited, way back in those days when I still had enough energy to be excited at all. Now I just have the energy to be frustrated... (and possibly nostalgic).

Option	Votes	%
Excited: I can wait to dive in and see what it's all about	85	7.98
Interested: I'll take a look and see if it's something we can use	368	34.55
Optimistic: I'm sure there will be some business opportunities in there somewhere	135	12.68
Ambivalent: There's new tech every second day. If it's important I'll end up knowing about it	405	38.03
Bored: There's a never ending stream of "new tech". Whatever	174	16.34
Frustrated: Why can't we just make the current tech stable and supported?	216	20.28
Disinterested: I have no interest in new tech	39	3.66
Disillusioned. It's either stuff from 5 years ago rebranded, or will cause more problems than it claims to solve	152	14.27
Other	45	4.23
Responses	1,065
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%