Maybe the growth in technology will slow down as all the new ideas get exhausted. In a few hundred years you may be able to get parts for models that are decades old because the manufacturers won't be able to come up with any significant innovations.
If you think that sounds daft, a few months back I gave a working, hardly used arc welder to a local charity. I was going to chuck it because, although it was in mint condition, it was decades old and I thought no one would want it. Then I found the manufacturer was still making the exact same model. You could get manuals, repairs, auxiliary equipment, gas bottles and spare parts from them.
If you think that sounds daft, a few months back I gave a working, hardly used arc welder to a local charity. I was going to chuck it because, although it was in mint condition, it was decades old and I thought no one would want it. Then I found the manufacturer was still making the exact same model. You could get manuals, repairs, auxiliary equipment, gas bottles and spare parts from them.
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