I liked the roller skate-roller blade comparison. Now roller skates are kind of like an old coin collection, they still have value to some people, and offer something the new toys do not, the nostalgia factor.

Crypto is still a pretty new system to many many people. Bitcoin may be 11 years old, but it is only recently that a large part of people may be seeing it for the first time.

The firm introduced its first small computer, the TRS–80, in 1977. (the first computer I owned TSR 80 CoCo, 1982) and Apple computers were the year before. First computer with a builtin hard drive? 1957 the size of two refrigerators.

We look at the speed of development and often over look the reality of the speed of that development or adoption.