I’m only just past half that age, and the changes I’ve seen are ridiculous. My star-trek pocket computer (phone) is many thousands of times more powerful than my first computer, and I was unusual as a kid to even have access to that. There were 5 channels of TV available when I was a young kid, and videotapes went from very rare to common as I grew up. I was cutting-edge with my 300 bps modem in junior high. I was a young adult, out of college, when UUCP/Usenet gave way to universal tcp/ip and internet e-mail. I was part of http and html adoption, replacing gopher and ftp and the like. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. wait, what was I saying?
The last 100 years is the first part in history with recorded media available. It’s only been a few hundred that printing was cheap enough that there’s a lot of novels and written detail about historical state of the world. There are records and sparse documents going back a few thousand years. It gets even less documented (though there are artifacts and other evidence) for the 30K or so years before that, not much for the 300K or so that probably-conscious beings have been on earth.
It’s so easy to forget just how recently everything we take for granted has happened.
I’m only just past half that age, and the changes I’ve seen are ridiculous. My star-trek pocket computer (phone) is many thousands of times more powerful than my first computer, and I was unusual as a kid to even have access to that. There were 5 channels of TV available when I was a young kid, and videotapes went from very rare to common as I grew up. I was cutting-edge with my 300 bps modem in junior high. I was a young adult, out of college, when UUCP/Usenet gave way to universal tcp/ip and internet e-mail. I was part of http and html adoption, replacing gopher and ftp and the like. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. wait, what was I saying?
The last 100 years is the first part in history with recorded media available. It’s only been a few hundred that printing was cheap enough that there’s a lot of novels and written detail about historical state of the world. There are records and sparse documents going back a few thousand years. It gets even less documented (though there are artifacts and other evidence) for the 30K or so years before that, not much for the 300K or so that probably-conscious beings have been on earth.
It’s so easy to forget just how recently everything we take for granted has happened.