All true, God knows my own professional life would be very different with the technology of when I started grad school just 12 years ago vs what we have today. The ability to have all the knowledge in the world at your fingertips, all the time, almost anywhere, is truly amazing.
Sometimes I wonder if the changes my parents will see (from about 1950 to 2020) are less dramatic than from say 1890 to 1960 -- the change from a mostly agrarian society to one where most people lived in cities, had jobs of the sort we'd recognize, lived with electricity and motorized transport, access to meaningful medical care (especially vaccines and antibiotics), etc. Great as the internet is, I suspect that the mechanisation/electrification of the home, widespread ownership of cars, shift from farmwork to office/factory work, and availability of decent medical care was more of a change in most people's daily lives than anything that's happened since the days of B&W tv and rotary telephones.
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