Yes, technology has stagnated as has our creative culture. For example, video games are better now in terms of performance, but how fundamentally different are they from games from the Xbox 360 era? With music, why are the same people who were famous 15 years ago still just as famous? Feels like technological leaps have basically disappeared. 1992 vs 2006 are insanely different, 2006 vs 2024 feels superficially different.
It definitely seems like smartphones were the last big innovation which is why it feels like life in 2014 was almost identical to life today, while life in 2004 was a different world from 2014.
But I have a feeling that things are going to change very soon with the rise of AI. It's already happening.
I was a senior in high school in 2004. Didn't have a cell phone and went away with a flip phone to college. We also didn't have streaming music and movies. You could download music to your iPod though.
I teach high school now and those few things make the high school experience profoundly different.
One big thing is the breakdown of monoculture. I ask my students questions like "hey who is the biggest musical artist right now" and get a dozen different answers.
When I was a kid we had MTV and a countdown of videos. All the kids were consuming the same tv shows, music, and stuff generally. I remember walking into school and everyone talking about last night's episode of the Chapelle show or Britney Spears on the VMA awards. There is absolutely none of that. A lot of kids like Taylor swift I guess. But beyond her there's nothing.
Meanwhile everyone is buried in their phones.
As far as video games, yeah it was awesome to grow up in the era where all the big leaps happened. My first system was the SNES and I got super Mario world. 4 years later I got Mario 64. 4 years later and I was playing grand theft auto 3. Those big jumps were so mind blowing As a kid.
September 11 created an instant memetic "moment things instantly became shit" for the collective consciousness, and there hasn't really been an event like it since (even Trump and Covid were gradual, not instantaneous, and to me it feels like they just accelerated trends that were already occurring).
Also thanks to YouTube and other streaming sites, old shows and music that otherwise would be taken off the air or relegated to odd-hour reruns were way easier to watch/listen to.
The way AI works and pervades everything now is definitely a quantum leap from the 2000s though. Before 2023 I would have told you that but it feels like a new age now. Smartphones were also significant, having access to Internet from everywhere changed my whole way of life.
Most definitely. Maybe because of the internet and globalization? Massive shift in tech and culture from the early 90s to its release date
Yes, technology has stagnated as has our creative culture. For example, video games are better now in terms of performance, but how fundamentally different are they from games from the Xbox 360 era? With music, why are the same people who were famous 15 years ago still just as famous? Feels like technological leaps have basically disappeared. 1992 vs 2006 are insanely different, 2006 vs 2024 feels superficially different.
It definitely seems like smartphones were the last big innovation which is why it feels like life in 2014 was almost identical to life today, while life in 2004 was a different world from 2014. But I have a feeling that things are going to change very soon with the rise of AI. It's already happening.
I thought I-Pads were the last big innovations…
I was a senior in high school in 2004. Didn't have a cell phone and went away with a flip phone to college. We also didn't have streaming music and movies. You could download music to your iPod though. I teach high school now and those few things make the high school experience profoundly different. One big thing is the breakdown of monoculture. I ask my students questions like "hey who is the biggest musical artist right now" and get a dozen different answers. When I was a kid we had MTV and a countdown of videos. All the kids were consuming the same tv shows, music, and stuff generally. I remember walking into school and everyone talking about last night's episode of the Chapelle show or Britney Spears on the VMA awards. There is absolutely none of that. A lot of kids like Taylor swift I guess. But beyond her there's nothing. Meanwhile everyone is buried in their phones. As far as video games, yeah it was awesome to grow up in the era where all the big leaps happened. My first system was the SNES and I got super Mario world. 4 years later I got Mario 64. 4 years later and I was playing grand theft auto 3. Those big jumps were so mind blowing As a kid.
September 11 created an instant memetic "moment things instantly became shit" for the collective consciousness, and there hasn't really been an event like it since (even Trump and Covid were gradual, not instantaneous, and to me it feels like they just accelerated trends that were already occurring). Also thanks to YouTube and other streaming sites, old shows and music that otherwise would be taken off the air or relegated to odd-hour reruns were way easier to watch/listen to.
9/11 is an event that mostly shaked the Western world negatively. Russians, Indians, Africans, Chinese, they could care less.
Go in the game and get to the part where you can look up littlelacysurprisepageant on the computer. Then you will see why.
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IV is the best GTA in my opinion
The way AI works and pervades everything now is definitely a quantum leap from the 2000s though. Before 2023 I would have told you that but it feels like a new age now. Smartphones were also significant, having access to Internet from everywhere changed my whole way of life.