This question is surprisingly hard… I can barely start thinking about very ordinary stuff like “automatized mailbox management...”
Your “gold example” made me think about artificial diamonds, which are still regarded as less valuable than natural ones in jewelry—but that’s because jewelry is a luxury / status good.
It helps a bit to think about tech that sort of existed for very long and was only largely deployed in the last hundred years, like bicycles. I mean, we could have it since at least 18th Century, but they only appeared around 1840s, and somehow it only became a real option after the 1890s—when we already had trains and cars.
This question is surprisingly hard… I can barely start thinking about very ordinary stuff like “automatized mailbox management...” Your “gold example” made me think about artificial diamonds, which are still regarded as less valuable than natural ones in jewelry—but that’s because jewelry is a luxury / status good. It helps a bit to think about tech that sort of existed for very long and was only largely deployed in the last hundred years, like bicycles. I mean, we could have it since at least 18th Century, but they only appeared around 1840s, and somehow it only became a real option after the 1890s—when we already had trains and cars.