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  • Douglas Adams gives the following 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 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

    3. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things.

    October 11, 2010

  • ... That's about right.

    October 11, 2010