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Douglas Adams on age and reactions to new technology
Douglas Adams quote from The Salmon of Doubt describing how age shapes attitudes toward technology: things existing at birth feel normal, inventions between fifteen and thirty-five seem exciting, and anything after thirty-five feels unnatural.
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.
Douglas Adams in The Salmon of Doubt