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joe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

It’s the point Douglas Adams was making with this quote:

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.

This is exactly how these moral panics go. It’s always relatively to the world the person grew up in.

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