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I think part of it is that when you were younger, tech was a very new part of most people's everyday life. You grew up through the introduction of the smartpho
by Youden 5y ago
I think part of it is that when you were younger, tech was a very new part of most people's everyday life.
You grew up through the introduction of the smartphone, social media and digital cameras, as well as the incredible development of computing power. When you were born, the most advanced piece of electronics in the average household might have been a TV. Now, everyone has a little box with a phone, supercomputer and camera in their pocket. That was a huge and exciting change.
But now, much of that burst of transformation has slowed down and any developments in tech are an incremental improvement as far as everyday life is concerned.
But personally, I love learning about the technology in other industries, particularly manufacturing. Look at the everyday objects around you and the process that was used to make them. The sewing machine that stitched your clothes and the mechanism it uses to do it. The machines that produced the yarn and the machines that turned it into fabric. Look at how metals are extruded into a housing for some electrical device or parts of your house. Look at how CNC machining is used to create high-precision parts or how sheet metal is processed to mass-produce low-cost parts.
There's so much technology around us that has been quietly doing its job for decades and even if the change it induced is taken for granted now, the technology itself is still an impressive achievement.