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Funny how new technology is unnatural but old technology, (that existed before we were born, like cars, streets, subways) are “natural”.


Douglas Adams summed it up eloquently:

“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.”


I’d like a special exemption for social media, with it being in category 3 always.


Or you are just old (me too)




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