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.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English writer
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

 
Added on 6-Nov-07 | Last updated 26-Aug-14
Link to this post | 1 comment
More quotes by Adams, Douglas

1 thought on “<i>The Salmon of Doubt</i> (2002)”

Thoughts? Comments? Corrections? Feedback?