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title: "Reply to: Douglas Adams on reactions to technology by age"
url: https://perrotta.dev/2024/12/reply-to-douglas-adams-on-reactions-to-technology-by-age/
last_updated: 2026-02-08
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[via John
Gruber](https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/01/douglas-adams-reactions-to-technology):

> I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
>
> 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
>
> 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
>
> 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Still surprisingly relevant.

What will come after Gen AI?