“Now, as a skeptical empiricist, I do not consider that
resisting new technology is necessarily
irrational: waiting for time to operate its testing might be a valid approach
if one holds that we have an incomplete picture of things. This is what
naturalistic risk management is about. However, it is downright irrational if
one holds on to an old technology that is not naturalistic at all yet visibly
harmful, or when the switch to a new technology (like the wheel on the
suitcase) is obviously free of possible side effects that did not exist with
the previous one. And resisting removal is downright incompetent and criminal
(as I keep saying, removal of something non-natural does not carry long-term
side effects; it is typically iatrogenics-free).” –Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
