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Those of us who lived through those years have a priceless benefit of having witnessed technology history unfold in real time. We saw the evolution of technology beyond just a bigger screen size of slightly faster processor. We had actual leaps and breakthroughs. My kids today will never have that unless some sort of huge technological miracle happens that changes everything.

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VR is pretty legit right now.

lots of fiddling for the current best experience but totally can blow you away. you can't imagine what it's like - you have to experience it to understand.

also... tesla/spacex... and tons of other things. tech is evolving very quickly. Tech history is being made much faster than it was back then

This will certainly happen again. AR/VR, AI, and drone proliferation, and (fully) self driving cars are a handful that immediately come to mind without really thinking, which are due to really mature in the next 5-10 years.

All true. It will take years to materialise into commodities and I am patient. However, I think my kids will experience those as adults though, which will take a bit of the magic out. I guess what I'm saying is that my children will take this for granted. I still remember my total shock when I saw my first Amiga. Compared to the 8bits it was mind blowing. Then I had a chance to fly on a military F16 simulator powered by an SGI. That was mind blowing. I did not take it for granted. It was pure magic. Then we saw the internet rise through flaming skulls centred on crazy backgrounds and from that to something like Google maps and all that. And now, the same giants, year after year, announce a different screen size or more megapixels in a camera. I want my flying car damn it. I want to see a SpaceX launch become just a routine launch to Mars, or call my driverless Uber to pick me up while i'm mind-jacked into some multiverse... I'm ready... They are not.

Thanks for reading. We'll never see anything like the technology leap we had back in the late 70's early 80's ever again. I mean, even the internet wasn't that great a leap. Simply connecting PCs.

The internet was a "bigger screen" of the lets-connect-two-computers-together breakthrough. Still mind blowing though. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I'm a huge fan of side/top scroller shootemups (R-Type being up there at the top as one of the hardest games ever made).

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