Everything science gives us immediately becomes normative

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“Everything science gives us immediately becomes normative. To an eighty-year-old man, a computer is this amazing device that creates instantaneous access to limitless information. He can’t get his head around it. But to a twenty-year-old man, the computer is a limited machine that costs too much and always needs to be faster. Because human live finite lives, all technological advances immediately feel banal to whatever generation inherits their benefits. Any advance can be appreciated only by the handful of people who happen to exist within the same time period of that specific technology’s introduction. …To a seven-year-old, a computer doesn’t even qualify as technology. It’s like a crowbar.”

–Chuck Klosterman, The Visible Man: A Novel (2011)

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