Sometimes I just read a line that resonates with me. I came across these two over the last day:
From The Online Photographer: It’s one of the cool things about getting older…sooner or later you live in the future.
From Douglas Adams (Hitchiker’s Guide) via Terence Eden via Om Malik:
– 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.
– 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.
– Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Its interesting when you think about it. My grandmother, born in 1908, always talked about how her mother would be amazed with the microwave oven, invented, according to the Wikimonster, in 1955. Today we can’t imagine a home without one. Now, I imagine describing to my dad some of the technology we currently use. He was a “shade tree” automotive mechanic, aspiring electronic tinkerer and auto racing fan, among other things, so today’s electronic everything would be his microwave. But it seems like we have a lot more of those things today than we did 50-ish years ago. Maybe it just seems like more magic.
What will ours be?
Lots of neat quotes! Being over 60 they strike home.
They sure do, Howard!
I think often of my grandfather, who was born in Michigan’s UP in 1896 and grew up with horse and carriage conveyance. I sat beside him watching men land on the moon. I didn’t “get” how big that was then (I was 10 in 1969), but man… that sense of “how far we’ve come” must have been overwhelming.
Fore = Pie
Aft = Chili
Exactly! The moon landing was also fascinating to me, but sort of “of course we did.” But space and the concept of it is mesmerizing to me and always has been.
Yep, sooner or later! LOL
🙂
I always liked Clarke quote: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Also a good one!