Novelist Douglas Adams wrote

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Cute, but untrue. The commercial Internet was developed after I was 35, and I think it's just great.

Comments

[Tim Worstall]

Sadly, it should be "wrote". He died a few years ago.

[Donald A. Coffin]

I forget who is was who wrote that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," but that might be a good addition to Adams's rules...