“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 (entire original article is well worth reading)
Great essay.
“Newsreaders
still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance,
a crime was planned by people ‘over the Internet.’ They don’t bother to mention
when criminals use the telephone or the M4, or discuss their dastardly plans
‘over a cup of tea,’ though each of these was new and controversial in their
day.”
Nice one. You should watch this video by Douglas “Parrots, the Universe, and everything”, It’s AMAZING: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc