Toni Kistner opinion, March 28, 2007 - 7:00 am
The Line Between Cool and Useful
Columnist Toni Kistner says there's a big difference between admiring a technology and investing in it.
My advice last week to not buy networking gear “based solely on price or emotion” prompted some fairly charged responses. One reader in particular summed up the mood of the room: “EH praises upcoming technologies that haven’t lasted any test of time.” That’s not entirely fair, guys. You read EH to find out what’s new and cool in part because it’s entertaining. Praising something new because it’s cool isn’t the same as recommending you buy it, right? If I only…
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Kistner is a technology writer living in Cambridge, Mass. Her main focus is networking and wireless.
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