What I find funny about this article is how much Noah Smith gushes about how much the world has changed since his childhood.... in the 1990s. I was born in the 1950s. Think about that. Radio dramas. The first passenger jets. The smell of newsprint. TV was new when I was a child. Calculators were new when I went to college. The web was new when I finished university. AI is new now. Still - don't think some of the new things described in this article are new. Sure, we never used to ignore each other while we used our smartphones. But we ignored each other while reading books, watching television, or listening to the walkman. Sure, Google maps means we're never lost. But even without Google Maps I'm never lost. It's a skill. And that's an important lesson about change, it seems to me. The things you think are changing aren't always what's changing.
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