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Steven Frank explaining the shift in technology using sociology rather than comparing features:

To change was not *all* good. To stay put was not *all* bad. But there was a ratio of goodness-to-badness that, in the long run, was quite favorable for everyone involved. However in the short term it seemed so insurmountable, so ludicrous, that it beggared the belief of a large number of otherwise very intelligent people.

Highly recommended Instapaper reading material.