An overwhelming percentage of my journals of semi-recent vintage are concerned wholly with what a fat and happy little yuppie I am. I'm sorry for that, but that's where my life is.
Today, while flying back, I was reading Snow Crash and MAKE alternately and listening to a pretty eclectic bit of music on my iPod video. For just a moment, I caught the reflection of my new glasses off the screen of the device. I stopped to think about how amazing all the technology was. At first, I did the standard one-hundred-years-ago extrapolation, and that was amazing. Then I did the ten-years-ago extrapolation, and that was even more shocking. Then I looked at the book in my hand, and I realized that I'd likely have an e-paper replacement for that within say the next dozen trips.
The craziest part to me was how commonplace most of my technology is to me.
Also, Onyx's "Slam" is still fucking awesome.
Today, while flying back, I was reading Snow Crash and MAKE alternately and listening to a pretty eclectic bit of music on my iPod video. For just a moment, I caught the reflection of my new glasses off the screen of the device. I stopped to think about how amazing all the technology was. At first, I did the standard one-hundred-years-ago extrapolation, and that was amazing. Then I did the ten-years-ago extrapolation, and that was even more shocking. Then I looked at the book in my hand, and I realized that I'd likely have an e-paper replacement for that within say the next dozen trips.
The craziest part to me was how commonplace most of my technology is to me.
Also, Onyx's "Slam" is still fucking awesome.
Yeah, we have progressed more rapidly technology-wise in the last ten years than in the entire last century. It's ridiculous.