visiting my brother and sister-in-law and seeing my 3 year old niece, watching netflix. and i realize that she'll never experience TV that isn't at least HD, or listen to music that isn't in perfect quality, or ever use a cell phone that isn't more powerful than the PC i used 5 years ago. that when she's my age, she'll look back at the technology i think as flippin awesome and consider it hokey and "retro"
hell i'm only 28, i don't feel that old mentally or physically, but the amount of technical innovation i've seen in my short lifetime so far is mind boggling. i wonder if she'll see the same kind of rapid progress that i have, or if things have plateaued a bit and it'll be more of a steady progression. afterall you can only make a cellphone so small, or a video game with so many polygons
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