45 ms·

Douglas Adams, [how to learn to love the internet]: 1. everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2. anything that gets invented

by jrue 5y ago

Douglas Adams, [how to learn to love the internet]: 1. everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2. anything that gets invented between then and before you turn 30 is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3. anything that gets invented after you’re 30 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. (I too miss RSS) [1] https://internet.psych.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/532-Master/532-UnitPages/Unit-14/DouglasAdams_1999_Edited.pdf https://internet.psych.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/532-Maste...

agumonkey 5y ago
Does he talks about the fact that vintage stuff that was before my birth are also better ? and how antique people were better ? These feelings are regularly in my head. Mostly because I feel so much waste from all the new things.. I'm not sure if it's a special attribute of the last decades (smartphones etc) or not.
kgran 5y ago
>3. anything that gets invented after you’re 30 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. This started happening when I was 14 (~2007) and really started to accelerate after I was 20 (~2013). I don't correlate this with me getting old but more like getting more and more aware of the profiteering, surveillance and bullshit everywhere.
- vanderZwan 5y ago
  And from the other side of the coin: I'm in my late thirties now and there also has been plenty of new tech (or improvements on existing tech) from the last decade that has me really excited. Unsurprisingly, almost all of it can be used outside of the aforementioned bubble of "profiteering, surveillance and bullshit".
themadturk 5y ago
Almost all of this newfangled tech stuff came along after I turned 30. I guess it must be pretty much all right.
rndmind 5y ago
The quote I knew is actually not 30, it's 35.

by jrue 5y ago

agumonkey 5y ago

Does he talks about the fact that vintage stuff that was before my birth are also better ? and how antique people were better ? These feelings are regularly in my head. Mostly because I feel so much waste from all the new things.. I'm not sure if it's a special attribute of the last decades (smartphones etc) or not.

kgran 5y ago

>3. anything that gets invented after you’re 30 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. This started happening when I was 14 (~2007) and really started to accelerate after I was 20 (~2013). I don't correlate this with me getting old but more like getting more and more aware of the profiteering, surveillance and bullshit everywhere.

vanderZwan 5y ago
And from the other side of the coin: I'm in my late thirties now and there also has been plenty of new tech (or improvements on existing tech) from the last decade that has me really excited. Unsurprisingly, almost all of it can be used outside of the aforementioned bubble of "profiteering, surveillance and bullshit".

themadturk 5y ago

Almost all of this newfangled tech stuff came along after I turned 30. I guess it must be pretty much all right.

rndmind 5y ago

The quote I knew is actually not 30, it's 35.