If you're around 70, you haven't just, seen a lot of change., You've basically ridden five revolutions in one lifetime.
First came personal computers. In the early 80s, those beige boxes crept into offices and spare bedrooms, turning typing pools and paper files into screens, and disks. (But who didn't like the IBM Selectric typewriter better than any keyboard?)
Then the internet and the Web arrived in the 90s and quietly blew the walls off the library. Suddenly you could look up anything, email anyone, and fall down rabbit holes without leaving your chair.
Next up: social media. By the mid2000s, classmates you hadn't seen since 1968 were sending you friend requests, your grandkids were posting selfies, and everyone had an opinion about everything, all the time.
Smartphones pulled it all into your pocket. That little rectangle became your camera, map, newspaper, and photo album. Even people who, don't like technology' now tap screens dozens of times a day.
And now AI. Artificial Intelligence tools can chat, summarize, brainstorm, and sometimes sound remarkably human.
Compared to earlier eras, that's a lot. The Industrial Revolution changed where people worked and how stuff was made, but it unfolded over several generations. We've had multiple industrialscale shifts compressed into a single lifespan. No wonder it feels like history's been on fastforward. We have been here for it all.
