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A Theory on Why People React Differently to Technology
By leelefever on July 26, 2004 - 8:13am
Seblogging: Reactions to technologies
After the recent discussion on the last post, I thought this was interesting and a little funny. It's Douglas Adams personal theory about why different people react so differently to technology:
I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- 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.
- 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.
- Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Updated: By the way, I just turned 31, so I've got four more years hang on to the exuberance.
A Theory on Why People React Differently to Technology
The original article (that I quiet like) is online at this address:
http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html
I guess there's no point in arguing against it, since there seems to be enough self-evident cases against that statement (just think about who is actually inventing all those interesting "new thingies" - hint: they are not usually younger than 15/35). ;)