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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

IDemo

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9. I've worked in high tech R&D for years

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Thu Sep 19, 2013, 07:40 PM

Sep 2013

And I would likely qualify under the modern definition - "slow to adopt or incorporate into their lifestyle..new technologies in general". We have no cable or dish TV and are still using our ancient tube sets. No smartphones or other mobile devices, and..gasp! no GPS in our 20 year old vehicles. OK, I am using an SSD in my home built PC, but only because it was a freebie.

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