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As Douglas Adams said - I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is norm
by umeshunni 7y ago
As Douglas Adams said -
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- TomMarius 7y agoI wouldn't say most people are like that. I know people who went from being born during 1920's and are using smartphones (and taking them for granted) just like my nearly 60 years younger parents do. My grandmother went from being raised on a communal farm during real socialism to being a proficient Excel user making complex macros for tax accounting.
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoGiven the author, I think rules like these are better taken as a joke with a nugget of truth in it.