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Why it sucks to live at the beginning of a century
I remember in my early youth the excitement I felt at the close of the 20th Century; home PC's were inundating the market, everyone I knew had a "modem" and 56K connection to the internet, there were the first real chic mobile phones, games consoles and applications were getting easier and easier to use; The borders for creativity,entertainment & communication via digital means seemed without border.
It seemed weekly a new technology was emerging to make the future brighter.
Cue 2010 and I don't see any of the hover cars I was promised in the 70's as a kid, there's no food pills, nor am I vacationing on the moon. Then I realised looking back on history (because damned if we forget it, tho we seem destined on repeating it), living in the beginning of a new century sucks because....
 Cue the 1800's
Im sure when Karl
von Drais invented the bicycle in 1817 he drew gasps of amazement and surely people would have thought "What a miraculous wonder ! This Laufmaschine bicycle will be the means of transport for centuries to come ! Why
one day we shall all have giant multi commuter bicycles that will link cities in trade and commerce !"
 Cue the 1900's
When Alexander Greame Bell managed to undulate electrical currents into sound and announce this wondrous invention, many were suspicious but soon it was said
"Why this "tele-phone" is a modern marvel ! Nay I predict
in 50 years every village will have one !"
 Cue the 2000's
"Like Everyone will
have like handheld devices, that like connect to the innerned and like you can read rilly,rilly good stuff like any time and play games n stuff and like tweet while reading an article and then watch a movie n stuff like all on one device"
Cue the 2100's and some archaeologist unearths this entry on a old dusty server in some ruins and says "Mien HOLY Ayadashada !!! They actually used their hands !!! "
Every beginning of a century seems to unviel the newer ideas but seems to take us a good 50 years to perfect them. Today's cutting edge is tomorrow's antiquated carbuncle and that's why it sucks to live at the beginning of a century.
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Posted by sasqwach
at December 31, 2009 11:59 AM | Permalink
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