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Thank you for saying this. It's always baffled me that people will decry ChangeX as unnatural and wrong when it happens in their lifetime, but happily build the
by csallen 2y ago
Thank you for saying this. It's always baffled me that people will decry ChangeX as unnatural and wrong when it happens in their lifetime, but happily build their lives upon NearlyIdenticalChangeY so long as it came before them.
- pottspotts 2y agoWe think of ourselves more intelligent than the generation before us, and more wise than the ones after.
- danielbln 2y agoMakes you wonder if that sort of dynamic between generations is ever going to be something that can be overcome. Maybe if humanity cures aging.
- JimDabell 2y ago“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, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
- stavros 2y agoThis is so accurate I'm offended.