tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955229912066643523.post9047248942403351883..comments2013-03-20T09:59:02.381+00:00Comments on Hacking the Book: We've come so far...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-955229912066643523.post-67775713683995404642011-11-18T15:30:27.352+00:002011-11-18T15:30:27.352+00:00Amy's post reminded me of an Xkcd: http://xkcd...Amy's post reminded me of an Xkcd: http://xkcd.com/768/<br /><br />I was thinking about this sort of thing the other day. I hate it when people are glued to their mobiles all day long, but I can't imagine life before them. To meet up with anyone would have to agree a time and a date beforehand, with no room for error. If I'm running a few minutes late/early there was no way to let the other know. As someone who is never on time would be constantly running the risk of having my meetings cancelled, my friends slinking off home frustrated.<br /><br />Obviously people managed to meet up before mobile phones became widely used, and the modern equivillent would be social networking sites. People my sister's age (5 year younger) have trouble imagining an age before there was a 'safe' place on the internet to post up photos of yourself, talk instantly to each other, and adress whole swathes of 'friends' at the click of a button.<br /><br />What I think this shows is that not only does this new technology advance astonishing quickly, but that we get used to them shockingly quickly, and find it hard to even conceive of a time before. I barely remember pre-broadband days, let alone before we had a computer.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17034190584335504563noreply@blogger.com