[Russia] has been haunted by its relative backwardness, particularly in the military and industrial spheres.
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it.
I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.
All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
Every technology is used before it is completely understood. We are living in that lag, and it is a right time to keep our head.
People would be surprised to know I had a flip phone until 2015.
Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.
Frankly, our technology is not up to date. We're letting it slip by.
I really haven't joined the 20th or the 21st century yet. Someday. I'm getting closer. I have voicemail and a fax machine.
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.
The United States is running a 21st century government under 1940s rules.
Technology is moving quickly. Policy is not moving as quickly.
I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.
