[simias]

I guess every generation experiences this type of nostalgia for the novelties of youth, but I still feel heavily privileged for having been able to live through the nineties and early 00's and experience the incredible technological explosion that occurred with microcomputers and the internet.

I started playing videogames on 8bit consoles and within a little more than a decade we had mainstream internet and games like Half Life 2. Every new generation of consoles and computers blew the previous one completely out of the water. We're also the last generation who knew what life was without having an always-online computer on ourselves at all times. Calling your friends on landlines to ask them if they wanted to hang out!

Meanwhile my current desktop computer that I use for work is about 8 years old and the benefits I'd get for upgrading would be relatively minimal. Tech is still progressing massively of course, but it feels like in many areas we've hit diminishing returns.

[dave78]

I suppose earlier generations had telegraph, telephone, radio, TV, airplane travel, rockets, etc. but yes, the rate of change of technology was incredible, to us anyway, in the 80s and 90s. I guess it remains to be seen if AI eventually evokes the same feelings. If not then it almost feels like we're in a bit of a drought since the smartphone revolution 15 years ago.

[actionfromafar]

This time around, the tech spread faster and more evenly. With the telephone, there were places with no telephone and other places which would have had it for almost a century.

Now, cell phones are almost everywhere.