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Wyodiver33 · 07-09-2008, 03:58 PM

Couldn't someone have asked the same question 500 years ago? 100 years ago? 20 years ago? Don't you think that people 100 years from now will look back at us like we look back at people from the early 1900's? It's just what you are used to and what you can accept as far as change goes. I don't mind your question at all. I just think you are being a little short-sighted, historically speaking. But a person using a first generation, handheld calculator probably thought it was way better than a slide-rule. If human kind is still around a hundred years from now, your quad-core, 4GB RAM, dual GPU computer will be in a museum and people will point and laugh at it. "Mommy, how did they ever play Doom 17 on THAT!?!"

As far as lazy goes: Of course we are lazier. What do you want? A tribal hunt with spears against mastodons? At the time, even a spear was high tech.

07-09-2008, 03:58 PM	#2 (permalink)
Wyodiver33 Just here for the beer. Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Floriduh	Couldn't someone have asked the same question 500 years ago? 100 years ago? 20 years ago? Don't you think that people 100 years from now will look back at us like we look back at people from the early 1900's? It's just what you are used to and what you can accept as far as change goes. I don't mind your question at all. I just think you are being a little short-sighted, historically speaking. But a person using a first generation, handheld calculator probably thought it was way better than a slide-rule. If human kind is still around a hundred years from now, your quad-core, 4GB RAM, dual GPU computer will be in a museum and people will point and laugh at it. "Mommy, how did they ever play Doom 17 on THAT!?!" As far as lazy goes: Of course we are lazier. What do you want? A tribal hunt with spears against mastodons? At the time, even a spear was high tech. __________________ I like stuff.