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Originally Posted by 4X4
Oh man... I remember the days of taking transit everywhere, with my trusty bus pass and my big yellow walkman. Then, for xmas in ~1994, my mom bought me a discman. It was a high school kid's dream come true.
Kids these days (grumble) have no idea what it was like to have to carry around tapes and CDs in their backpacks. Actually have to go to a library to do research for reports. No such thing as email, facebook. Maybe one or two kids in the group had internet at home and we'd all crowd around their 386 (my first computer was a 286) and go online via AOL.
Hell, if you wanted to meet up with a friend, you had to call his or her house and likely deal with one of the parents before getting through to your friend. And if you were out, you'd have to use an icky pay phone.
I can't believe the advancement in technology I've witnessed in my 30 years.
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(technology nerd mode : on)
Definately. I think the technology age is an era in itself, from hunter/gathers, to agriculture/urbanization, industrial age, and now this is the tech age. Usually it takes ~10 years for technology to get accepted by a large portion of majority (though that is speeding up, fast) so cutting edge stuff coming out now should see the market place in 2015-2020. 3D television, RFID's replacing keys and maybe even carrying medical info, exoskelatons, medical diagnostics, cell phones replacing laptops to some extent if ultrawideband technology pulls out from out of the gutter... saying that, I think the somewhat-short era of memory is coming to a halt and we won't see faster computers with more memory. Instead, I think we'll see more efficient and global systems, both from a software and hardware level (i.e. internet browsers replacing operating systems and so on).
Funny though, I didn't get a cell phone until about 2 years ago. I either told people to call my girlfriends phone or my best friends phone if they needed to get ahold of me outdoors. (otherwise, I'd be at school or I'd email/MSN accessible) As a consumer, I'm a little anti-technology especially for someone working in the field.