Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: UNSURE 0.277 X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.57; '*S*': 0.12; 'referring': 0.07; 'suppose': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'finney': 0.16; 'it;': 0.16; 'processors': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'television,': 0.16; 'discussion': 0.18; 'work,': 0.20; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'earlier': 0.24; 'this:': 0.26; 'gets': 0.27; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'on,': 0.29; 'topic': 0.29; 'are.': 0.31; 'douglas': 0.31; 'writes:': 0.31; 'anyone': 0.31; 'becomes': 0.33; 'beginning': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'turn': 0.37; 'list': 0.37; 'ben': 0.38; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'anything': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'phones': 0.60; 'new': 0.61; 'matter': 0.61; 'course': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'love': 0.65; 'great': 0.65; 'world': 0.66; 'between': 0.67; 'natural': 0.68; 'printing,': 0.74; 'article': 0.77; 'cinema,': 0.84; 'it\xe2\x80\x99s': 0.84; 'late,': 0.84; 'music,': 0.84; 'radio,': 0.84; 'wheel': 0.84; 'kid': 0.91; 'subject:looking': 0.91; 'you\xe2\x80\x99re': 0.91; 'luck': 0.93; 'hot': 0.96; 'incredibly': 0.96 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Ben Finney Subject: Re: looking for a quote on age and technology Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:52:11 +1100 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rasputin.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-gpg.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rf64nXYWrD+R/bfDkRpw2Olonv8= X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 08:56:41 +0100 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 40 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1388649402 news.xs4all.nl 2964 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:57636 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:62974 Rustom Mody writes: > For a new technology: > If you are a kid when it comes out, you just take it as a matter of course > If you are a young adult, then it becomes a hot topic for discussion > If you are past middle-age you never get it > > Anyone knows/remembers it? I think you're referring to an article by the late, great Douglas Adams, “How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet”: I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really. Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are. -- \ “For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” —Jane Wagner, via | `\ Lily Tomlin | _o__) | Ben Finney