Why is technology from 1825 more durable  than technology from 2019?,(reply>), Because of material costs. Because everything is subject to scale of mass industry and mass market, whenever they can they minimize the amount of materials. Means less labour is used on the mining. Less weight for the logistics, etc. There was also less demand for materials due to no industrialization so certain things would be a lot easier to acquire. It's a very complicated reason. Nowadays our technology is powered by devices that are built at nano-scale. Built with plastics. Time decays this kind of stuff quickly and the possible points of failure has risen because of it. It's no longer built to last, just built to last long enough. what helps here is it's essentially a solid state battery while our current stuff uses materials that are in liquid state. what's actually neat is we're at the point in time where we may be able to push out long lasting products for even cheaper than they currently are once the nanomaterials become easier to work with and AI takes over parts of the R&amp;D phases of product development. Unfortunately batteries are still likely to suck unless we can bridge the barrier between current batteries and capacitors. (fast recharge, slow discharge, no power leak, million-billion cycles)