Fair enoughI like the phrase "technologically inert". It seems to describe all those people who stick with the technology they had as a kid and refuse to move on no matter how demonstrably better something else. See also: old people worshipping vinyl even though its vaunted "fidelity" is worthless unless you fork out for an extraordinarily high-quality system, and even then it has a smaller decibel range than CDs... which are technology from 19 fucking 80 and use 16 measly bits and a pretty crummy sampling rate.
Pah.
Anyway, it's a nice phrase.
(Pah.
Anyway, it's a nice phrase.
boris the spider,
Tue 11 Oct 2011, 9:48,
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Douglas Adams says"1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty 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 ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really."
(2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty 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 ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really."
Dick Wonder ₐ wₒₙₖy, wₐᵥy wₒₙdₑᵣ,
Tue 11 Oct 2011, 9:51,
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Douglas Adams was a smart cookieI'm already feeling this effect and I'm only 32.
( boris the spider,
Tue 11 Oct 2011, 9:54,
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he's alive?! quick! dig him up before he suffocates!
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artifus is doing it all wrong,
Tue 11 Oct 2011, 9:55,
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