You know, being against something new doesn't automatically make you conversative. There also exists things like "bad ideas".
It does not make one conservative, but some people on this category are really conservative. But some people are just slow to adopt, or would never adopt the new. I think I saw that one in a marketing textbook about adopting new ideas....
Starting with those with the highest readiness to try, they are (1) Innovators: venturesome people and risk takers who are the very first users; comprising about 2.5 percent of the target market, (2) Early adopters: prestige oriented opinion leaders, about 13.5 percent of the target market, (3) Early majority: the leading segment of the mass market, about 34 percent of the target market, (4) Late majority: followers of the early majority, also about 36 percent of the target market, (5) Laggards: conservative, price conscious segment, about 14 percent of the target market.