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Humans are never "ready" for the next crazy technological advance. I'm fond of this concept that I heard a while back, that I'm probably going to butcher: If a

Humans are never "ready" for the next crazy technological advance. I'm fond of this concept that I heard a while back, that I'm probably going to butcher: If a technology comes out before you were born, or while you're very young, it's always existed. If it comes out when you're in your 20s, it's new and exciting. If it comes out after you're 35, it's scary and is a harbinger of ensuing disaster. We always manage to figure it out. It's a cat & mouse game, and the next generation will probably manage it. I don't mean to be casual about this, but does anyone think of how miraculous it is that in the past 80 years we haven't had a nuclear war?

k1t 3y ago
Pretty close: "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." - Douglas Adams