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Later generations will have less attachment to how things were when they grew up because everything changes a lot faster. (lemmy.world)
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Or at the very least less common attachment because they grew up outside of a monoculture.

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[–] waterore@lemmy.world 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The changes in technology from 1984 to 2004 is mind boggling fast when compared to the minimal changes between 2004 to 2024

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You'd have to go pretty far back to see things change slower over 20 years than 04-24.

I think OP is just confusing hype for reality, or just isn't old enough to know what it was like more than a decade ago.

It's the only way their post makes sense, and if they aren't going to clarify that's what we have to assume

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

You may be looking at the wrong things then:

  • While SSDs have been around for a while, they have only been commercially viable (for both home and enterprise use) for maybe 10-15 years.
  • Today, even a 300 dollar desktop 3d printer (especially a resin printer) will beat even the best industrial printers from just a decade ago.
  • For less than 50 bucks per month I can get an internet connection at home that's 16000 times faster than what I had in 2004. Back then, I had to wait minutes to load a single photo, today I can stream three dozen 4k videos at once and still have bandwidth to spare.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated vaccine research a lot. We finally got mRNA vaccines to work and are now applying them to other diseases as well.
  • Ten years ago, the idea of fully reusing rockets was laughed at. The first time a first stage was reused was in 2017. Today, most new rocket designs are planned as fully or at least mostly reusable.+
  • First mass market VR headsets came out in 2012. We are are just now at a point where untethered headsets are reaching usable resolution and framerate. New headsets add features like eye tracking, finger tracking, external cameras for augmented reality...

And so on...

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And those are big changes, but consider some of the changes from 1994-2014:

  • Laptops went from a premium item for classy business people to a common household item
  • most households didn't even have an internet connection in 1994, in 2014 most households had broadband
  • wifi
  • the birth of online commerce
  • the birth of social media
  • literally Google
  • we went from CD Players to iPods to having all the functionality of an iPod in everyone's phone, to streaming any music we want from cloud-based services
  • we saw the birth and (relative) death of internet radio
  • while we're on that topic, podcasts came into existence
  • we went from independent video stores to Blockbuster to Netflix DVD to Netflix streaming and Hulu as a competitor
  • furthermore, video streaming over the internet did not exist in 1994. Hell, we hadn't even started pirating music online at scale yet. You still had to record the radio with a cassette deck in '94.
  • video games went from SNES and Genesis to PS4, XBOne, and WiiU. We're talking Super Metroid vs Dark Souls II, or for handhelds, compare the Gameboy/Game Gear to the PS Vita/3DS. If you look at 2004 vs 2024 you'd be looking at KOTOR vs Dragon's Dogma 2. It's a much smaller contrast. Likewise if you look at 1984 vs 2004 it'd be from King's Quest I to Halo 2. And just for fun, 1974 to 1994 would be dnd to Final Fantasy VI
  • hybrid cars were invented
  • hydrogen fuel cell powered busses came into existence
  • video calls went from highly expensive, borderline sci-fi (see, e.g. Back To The Future Part II and the Pokemon anime) to being built into peoples' smartphones, tablets and laptops
[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Ten years ago the falcon 9 was running flights to the ISS. 9 years ago was the first successful booster landing.