looking for a quote on age and technology
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Ben Finney wrote: I think you're referring to an article by the late, great Douglas Adams, “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet”: Thanks Ben -- Yes thats the one I was looking for! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: looking for a quote on age and technology
Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com writes: For a new technology: If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of course If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion If you are past middle-age you never get it Anyone knows/remembers it? I think you're referring to an article by the late, great Douglas Adams, “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet”: I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are. URL:http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html -- \ “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” —Jane Wagner, via | `\ Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
looking for a quote on age and technology
There is a quote which I vaguely remember seeing on this list. It went something like this: (yeah my rendering is poor) For a new technology: If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of course If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion If you are past middle-age you never get it Anyone knows/remembers it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: looking for a quote on age and technology
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: There is a quote which I vaguely remember seeing on this list. It went something like this: (yeah my rendering is poor) For a new technology: If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of course If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion If you are past middle-age you never get it Anyone knows/remembers it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list sorry, don't remember it, but I disagree. I'm pretty old (b. 1953) and sometimes younger people think they get something that really isn't that impressive. I have an android phone and I like it, but as a phone, compared to phones that sit on a desk it totally sucks. And then there was the pet rock! happy new year! -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: looking for a quote on age and technology
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: There is a quote which I vaguely remember seeing on this list. It went something like this: (yeah my rendering is poor) For a new technology: If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of course If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion If you are past middle-age you never get it Anyone knows/remembers it? And since the capacitance of the ether where mails seem to hang in limbo after being sent and before being received seems now to be reaching 24 hours, heres a Happy New Year to all! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: looking for a quote on age and technology
On Tuesday 31 December 2013 13:19:21 Joel Goldstick did opine: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: There is a quote which I vaguely remember seeing on this list. It went something like this: (yeah my rendering is poor) For a new technology: If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of course If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion If you are past middle-age you never get it Anyone knows/remembers it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list sorry, don't remember it, but I disagree. I'm pretty old (b. 1953) and sometimes younger people think they get something that really isn't that impressive. I have an android phone and I like it, but as a phone, compared to phones that sit on a desk it totally sucks. And then there was the pet rock! Chuckle. I had heard of it, but had not seen one until it showed up on the desk of a wannabe salesgal at the tv station I was the CE at back then, as somewhat smaller than a baseball and worn somewhat flattened by 20,000 years of rolling along a river bottom. It had a magic markered Turn me over on the top, so as it didn't look big enough to hide one of the local scorpions (this was New Mexico folks), I did, to be greeted with Thanks, that felt good on the other side. And that was my intro to the craziness that was pet rocks. I even recall at the peak of it, somebody was selling sandwich baggies of sand as pet rock food. I was not impressed by other than the crowd mentality of such idiocy. happy new year! Now theres a motion I'll second, have a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year all. Cheers, Gene -- There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Hate me because I'm beautiful, smart and rich. -- Calvin Keegan A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: looking for a quote on age and technology
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Joel Goldstick wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: There is a quote which I vaguely remember seeing on this list. It went something like this: (yeah my rendering is poor) For a new technology: If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of course If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion If you are past middle-age you never get it Anyone knows/remembers it? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list sorry, don't remember it, but I disagree. I'm pretty old (b. 1953) and sometimes younger people think they get something that really isn't that impressive. You are disagreeing with a contrapositive: That the oldies dont get it does not mean the young 'uns do! In fact the whole point of that quote (however it went!) was that in different ways no one 'gets' it I have an android phone and I like it, but as a phone, compared to phones that sit on a desk it totally sucks. I am reminded of a famous quote : I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. --- The double irony is the (supposed) utterer: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
