perhaps the concept will be easier to grasp if you consider that after thousands of years of civilization, we have yet to develop a suitable, for its cost, replacement for the wheel. unless you plan to have magical hovering chairs for in every office. or whatnot.unbeataBULL wrote: somehow, i can't grasp the idea that after a 25 millenia, wires are still the best things out there, for their cost.

or the fork. for that matter.
it's so much primitive tech, it's just basic realities of life you can't run away from even with uber-technology.
you might as well ask why we have "primitive" mechanical toggle switches on table fans when we could definately make some sort of fancy-smancy electronic pressure sensor to activate it.