In an interview about the internet with the Sunday Times in 1999, Douglas Adams memorably satirised a common attitude towards new technology and trends.
Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal, suggested Adams. Anything created between birth and the age of 30 is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it.
But whatever is invented after you’ve turned 30 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 10 years, when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
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