a certain amount of rose-tinted glasses I'm sure that's a factor but maybe the particular point in the technology development curve accounts for a lot of the p

a certain amount of rose-tinted glasses I'm sure that's a factor but maybe the particular point in the technology development curve accounts for a lot of the perceived difference. There was a striking qualitative difference between a $2000 computer and a $20000 computer and if you had access to both, the latter felt like some sort of glimpse of the future like you got a ride in a prototype flying car. A computer that is 10x more expensive than a high-end smartphone is not Indigo² better than a 386. That gap just happened to be a brief and memorable outlier.