Have you ever burned your hands by some new and immature technology?

Question

I often hear people saying you shouldn\'t rush into adopting new technologies until they have become stable, tried and tested. There is even a joke on how it takes 3 versions to

Answer 1

When I was 10, my father tried to play a New Year song for me on a brand new Elektronika BK-0010-01.

Needless to say that the synthesizer failed to load from the tape and there was no song until the neighbour came with a guitar.