What, come to have fun? Do you think I can tell you about the future, technology, proper cleaning on the table and all that cool stuff from 2020? Any other news about drones, virtual reality, nano-fiber clothes and other delights of life in the future? Will I return the realization that every day life is getting steeper and steeper?
Sorry, today is not about that.
Remind me what year you were born? In 1980? Or ten years earlier? Or later maybe? Or are you still a schoolboy and came here to train revolutionary moods? In any case, the conversation will be serious.
Remember how it was before?
You didn't have a smart home. First you had your parents' house (where your parents were smart and you tried to keep up), then maybe you got your own house - and it had a TV. Such a big box that had three channels and three more, if the antenna was rotated correctly to the south-southeast? There were no huge flat-curved 3D panels with a number of square pixels that Chinese census officials never dreamed of. There were no set-top boxes that produced such graphics that it was as if you were watching a movie with real people. Oh wait, they still don't exist. Anyway.
You didn't have a smart watch. Were old, paternal, Montana or Electronics. The only "application" was alarm clocks - and that was enough. There was still a clock with a cuckoo - if you are completely from the past. Now you have Apple Watch. What color did you get by the way? And with what strap? Oh, so you don't have them? Have you seen a friend? Well, you are, don't worry.
But you do have a fitness bracelet, it definitely knows how to show the time. And also the pulse, pressure, the speed of rotation of the moon, counts the steps, wakes up when necessary - a miracle, not a device. Well, yes, before you needed a doctor and a mother for this, but now a separate device. The future is. By the way, where is your bracelet? Is the strap broken? And there is no normal application? Happenes. But your smart sneakers, shorts and T-shirt - they are definitely there? You see, the future is near. What, they still have to be washed, and for some reason they still collect sweat and dirt in 2020? Okay, don't be sad.
After all, you didn’t have a thirteen-inch tablet with Internet, video and games before - you didn’t need it. Well, although yes, here I agree with you, now nothing has changed.
And before you did not have a car that is smarter than you. She was at most stronger, but in this case you had a sledgehammer and such-and-such a mother. Do you remember how she appeared? Father gave again? Or did you buy it yourself, because you saved money on breakfast at school? What difference does it make now - you have Google mobiles, Tesla cars and Yandex drones. But wait, where do you get them from?
Technology took and came - and before you could easily do without all this. At first, you didn’t even know that there was an Internet, because in principle it didn’t exist. Then somewhere I heard about an outlandish contraption, and after that, with relatives, I looked into the browser window for the first time. I bought a computer, a modem, a card for an hour of the Internet - and disappeared. Remember, plain text was enough for you on the pages, and the main requirement was the absence of krakozyabrs. Now what? Adaptive layout? Rounded dice in the sixth Internet Explorer? Material design from every corner?
You used to chat with your friends in the real world all the time until you got a jabber. Or ace. You had an ICQ, right? Do you remember the UIN and password? Do you know why you don't remember?
Because before you didn't have the opportunity to write a letter to any person in the world with Internet access. And then she appeared, and now you are everywhere - on Facebook, Viber, Telegram and WhatsApp? What, Durov again said something about WhatsApp? Well, live with it now.
Although, of course, not everything is so bad. Yes, it used to be light and warm. The motherboards were greener, and the jersey after training was wetter. I agree, the problem is that you and I only see examples of cool, over-modern gizmos through the browser, while guys in academic gowns and / or expensive suits experience it all for themselves. Listen, you're welcome to visit. Let's chat, discuss everything, remember the past - how cool it was before, at the dawn of technology, which you and I once saw.
What, you don't like parties? At least you're still a human being and at least go out for food. Are you going out? And what's buzzing outside the window? Did the quadcopter bring food?
But for the rest - hello, Seryoga!
Source: habr.com