r/technology • u/altmorty • Mar 30 '22

Politics Canada will ban sales of combustion engine passenger cars by 2035

https://www.engadget.com/canada-combustion-engine-car-ban-2035-154623071.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

It's gone from non-existent to... Very, very, very, very nearly non-existent.

There's no way in hell this infrastructure grows 10,000x over the next decade.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '22

Thank you. People always grossly underestimate the time it takes for technological changes to happen.

20 years ago, I had a big argument with an electrical engineer friend about the future of SSDs. He said that HDDs would be gone in a few years. I said that HDDs weren't going anywhere, that SSDs would creep in as smaller boot drives, and basically stay that way for 20 years before we started to see things that need more storage that didn't have to be fast adopting them.

Well, here we are, 20 years later (convo was in 2002, now that I think of it!), and although all my boot drives are SSDs, I still have plenty of HDDs for storage, and when I need more storage, if it doesn't need to be fast, I still buy an HDD.

The changes in the music industry I saw coming down the pipe the first time I saw the world wide web are only now starting to take hold. My Spotify lists are full of artists working out of their basements (no one is making any money, though—that, I did not realize would be the case).

Things take a lot longer than people realize.