A thing I think about a lot is how to get in front of this lag time. It takes a long time to internalize the new affordances of the world; in some cases, people never internalize them, and instead, science (and the world) moves forward one funeral at a time.

But for things that are sufficiently inevitable, due to technological force or some other reason, can you force yourself into the new way? Many of us are familiar with this when our parents resist x, where x could be {the internet, social media, cell phones, texting, gay marriage, exercising on purpose} or a million other things. And we think: how stupid you are, to resist this obvious thing? And then we turn around and are equally stupid, but about something else.

So what if you were on the lookout for this, and said to yourself: how natural or "right" this feels is not a reliable guide to how important it is, and I'm going to jump in all the way and try to adapt to this, and take advantage of its unique features? Such a strategy might actually be optimal because the "natives" to the new way will not understand the virtues of the old way. So you can, at the cost of great personal discomfort, get the best of both.