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HaRuMaN:
I'm 30 and I have gray hair...  lots of gray.   :'(

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Singapura on October 18, 2008, 11:48:40 pm ---As far as technology goes, I couldn't have been born at a better time.

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I remember someone saying that same thing to me when I was a kid only he was born around 1900.  He mentioned electric lamps, telephones, cars, airplanes, motorboats, television, and a whole bunch of other things that we have never even thought about not having.

DaOld Man:
When I was but a youngin an old man once told me that you will know you are old when taking a good dump is better than sex.

I guess I aint old yet, but still....

ark_ader:
I don't know, but now I'm in my 40s, I do not want to do half of the crazy crud I did when I was 30.  Coming home and firing up the PC/CAB/TV is more fun than going out, getting drunk, being sick and eating aspirin the next day.

Roll on 50....More like roll on 3.

I look back to when I was 18 and a network engineer, and I think to myself, why didn't I get rich working with PCs like most of the M$ execs?  Now when I hear "My PC doesn't work" I duck for cover instead of making a financial opportunity of the event.  I think computers are all too mainstream.  Gone are the days when paying for a computer repair guy was the big deal.  Now your 12 year old could do a better job.

Maybe technology has a sell by date, or a side effect/symptom for those who are past caring and just want it to work.

I can just see me in front of the hologram 3D viewer with an old Jakks when I get to 90.  By then I will be OLD.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on October 19, 2008, 10:41:51 am ---
--- Quote from: Singapura on October 18, 2008, 11:48:40 pm ---As far as technology goes, I couldn't have been born at a better time.

--- End quote ---


I remember someone saying that same thing to me when I was a kid only he was born around 1900.  He mentioned electric lamps, telephones, cars, airplanes, motorboats, television, and a whole bunch of other things that we have never even thought about not having.

--- End quote ---

Both of these make perfect sense, I think.  You really don't get these paradigm-shifting inventions very often.  I'm talking about things like the printing press, cotton gin, iron founding.  That guy born in 1900 got to see a revolution in transportation in the early 1900s, and then in mass communication in the mid-1900's (TV).  The telephone and electric lamp go in there in their respective spots too.  Then we've got the computer chip which has caused such a paradigm shift that we're now out of the industrial age, into the information age. 

No matter when you're born you get to see some cool stuff invented, but it seems like there are only a few REALLY big ones in any given century.

OMG . . . indoor plumbing and municipal sewers.  That one's probably the biggest of them all.  I don't know how that missed my list.   ;D

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