There are other factors not mentioned in this article.
First, most technologies are challenging to use and expensive at first. There are often related technologies that are required to make the first technology actually be useful. For example indoor toilets are not really useful without plungers.
The second problem is survivorship bias. People are rightly skeptical of new technology, because most new technology turns out to be rather limited in its uses, at least initially. It's easy to comment on the slow adoption of some past technologies, because we can see their wide use later, yet we ignore all the garbage that they were also trying to ignore. See
https://xkcd.com/1827/
First, most technologies are challenging to use and expensive at first. There are often related technologies that are required to make the first technology actually be useful. For example indoor toilets are not really useful without plungers.
The second problem is survivorship bias. People are rightly skeptical of new technology, because most new technology turns out to be rather limited in its uses, at least initially. It's easy to comment on the slow adoption of some past technologies, because we can see their wide use later, yet we ignore all the garbage that they were also trying to ignore. See https://xkcd.com/1827/