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Ah, the culture war version of the famous Douglas Adams quote about technology:

"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."




What is funny to me is that for me 2 and 3 are swapped.

2 really was just me being unimpressed generally. For some reason I didn't think much of the ipad...

Now I'm old and everything is amazing.


The difference is that I live in the middle of the country, so I'm basically living in the past but can see the future screaming my way via the internet.




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