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This Douglas Adams quote is still undefeated: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way th
by internet2000 8mo ago
This Douglas Adams quote is still undefeated:
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.
- chasing0entropy 8mo agoThe garbage that counts as 'invented' in 2010-present has a third of the thought, twice the expense, and mandatory dlc.
- dude250711 8mo agoYeah, that quote is starting to show it's age.
- techblueberry 8mo agoThe thing that's really interesting about quotes like these, and probably adds validity to the fact that they might not be true anymore is not just how outdated they are, but how young they likely are. Before the industrial revolution, things didn't change fast enough for this quote to be valid. Now they change too fast.
- th0ma5 8mo agoI certainly think both can be true, we can have different contexts of technology as we get on the train and go through this cycle Adams describes, as well as fundamentally disagree with a technology's marketing for fundamental reasons. Additionally you could be both and this isn't a conflict.
- hahahahhaah 8mo agoThat is subtly wrong for things like social media and AI. 50 year olds can embrace and use these things. However the dangers of these things are well accepted by all adults IMO not just older people. Many of the AI saftey crowd are young.
- pier25 8mo agoThere's definitely some truth to that but not everything is a generational thing. Eg: Social media is a net negative for kids and teens.
- t-3 8mo agoKids these days can't even play outside by themselves, let alone explore alone or be unsupervised miles from home with no adults like we could when I was a kid in the 90s and 2000s. What else can they do other than use social media? The creeping infantilization of the youth has robbed them of any chance for socializing or fun that exists outside of a screen.
- pier25 8mo agoAre you sure it's not the other way around? That all of this is happening because of social media, phones, etc?
- Markoff 8mo agoI'd say it's more likely thanks to more cars and better news coverage, now you hear about every kid being attacked/abused, while in past this was not so widely available knowledge playing into parents fear
- nozzlegear 8mo agoI agree with better news coverage (I'd argue it's more news coverage, in which social media plays a huge role), but I'm not sure I understand your point about more cars?
- Markoff 8mo agoI'm considering cars the biggest danger for free roaming kids alone outside.
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- ghusto 8mo agoExcept I was there during phase 1 and 2, and still feel everything's fallen apart. I saw what it was, what it was becoming, and what it's become. This isn't nostalgia or granpa shouting at clouds, many important things are objectively worse now.
- direwolf20 8mo agoyou imply you're in phase 3 now, having been through phases 1 and 2, and that is the phase where everything feels falling apart.
- tim333 8mo agoI'm not sure of 3. as someone aged 61. Some new stuff is cool. E-bikes are fun for example. And re 1. there's some bad stuff that deserved to go - war famine polio etc. Work in progress.