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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Although I am a bit younger (40), I actually completely disagree about technology and world events being less predictable or understandable now than 20-30 years ago. In my opinion, things are moving SLOWER in many ways than they were back then.

1990s: We literally went from many people never having TOUCHED a computer to most families having one at home. We went from having to ask your neighbor for advice or waiting for the daily paper or nightly news to having information constantly at our fingertips in the form of the internet.

2000s: september 11? Was that predictable? Smartphones as powerful as a computer from a few years earlier, tablets, going from physical media to streaming and cloud-based services?

2010s: I feel like all the tech trends from the previous 20 years just continued accelerating. [b]But where is the real new technology? Where is the groundbreaking, "difficult to grasp" tech that OP is talking about???[/b][/quote]

You're thinking about technology like a boomer. It's not necessarily something physical that you buy and hold in your hand. [b]The biggest innovations of the last two decades were embedded for use within the existing devices you own and has changed how we interact with the world[/b]. Uber, for example. AirBnB. Amazon Prime. Instagram. And it's not just those identifiable apps and user interfaces, but also the stuff you don't see.[/quote]

Agree.  Just because the 2010's "tech developments" aren't necessarily each headline-makers in the same way as Sept 11 (what is?), doesn't mean that recent changes, collectively, do not have a huge impact.  I think that the rise in the ubiquity of smartphones, the political/commercial exploitation of internet activity, and the way that a whole generation is growing up on social media will actually have much more profound effects than two planes flying into the twin towers (horrifying as that was).[/quote]

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