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Can you recommend any other articles that share your view? The perspective of the present time is strange. I share the authors view that progress happened much
by sosuke 12y ago
Can you recommend any other articles that share your view? The perspective of the present time is strange. I share the authors view that progress happened much more rapidly in the past, and that the future always seems 10 years out. Is that simply my brain playing tricks on me or is there any validity to it?
- hbosch 12y ago> Is that simply my brain playing tricks on me or is there any validity to it? Just look at whatever device is currently in your pants pocket.
- xnull2guest 12y agoReally? I feel like I can do mostly the same - and possibly a little less - with my pocket device than I used to do with my PC in the 90s. (For context I grew up in the 90s as a child programmer.) I feel like the devices do mostly the same stuff, just more of it, and more portably. With new caveats. Obviously the hardware improvements have been incredible. The software capabilities? I'm less inclined. (Software is probably more stable - I'll give it that.)
- dmytrish 12y agoIt may be just a "distortion" of perception of the past: several decades in the past are much more "succinct" to our present view than a month half a year ago; we look at all the achievements in several decades before us at once, whereas it's an entire half of our own lifespan.