I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
- 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.
- 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.
- Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams
Can’t be. Bizarre as it is, it actually performs it’s stated purpose. Now if they had a staircase that worked as an anti-aircraft missile, I’d be looking for the B.S. Johnson nameplate immediately.