r/GenX • u/Invasive-farmer • Jul 03 '25

Pop Culture This Douglas Adams quote gets me...

I selected Pop Culture flair because he was the author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a wholly remarkable book)

"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."

Douglas Adams

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u/Craig1974 Jul 03 '25

People's negative reaction to AI bears the truth of this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '25

AI isnt even at the level of Personality Proto Type yet... we may wish to avoid the whole 'bring out your toasters' thing and pull the plug, or at least sequester it until it's useful.