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  "New" ideas have to be evaluated and only adopted if they are an improvement on the status quo. Anybody can come up with a really, really daft idea which is a monumental step back in time and immensely injurious to the body concerned, and use the meretricous appellation "new" to sell it to the gullible. "Hey, this is new, new, new, and you lot opposing it are all hidebound and blinkered not to fall for it. New is Good. Old is Bad. Black is White."
  
  "New" is the cheap marketing hype the snake oil salesman employed when he diversified into flogging the Sinclair C5.
  
  "New" is a buzzword which theoretically symbolises the prospect of progress but can equally apply to a truly disastrous change of path. Do you remember what happened to our great industrial conglomerate GEC, a century-old ever-expanding global colossus under the wise guidance of Arnie Weinstock? Renamed Marconi under his successor George Simpson and devoted to the "new" idea of focussing narrowly on telecoms in the dot.com boom, it was utterly destroyed in less than a decade.

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