🗺️ I remember my parents had those paper maps and booklet maps in our car. Driving to new places was such a big ordeal trying to navigate the roads and street signs. Especially in new countries.

📍Now Google Map's like "in 200 meters, turn left at the intersection." And soon it'll all be self driving electric cars charged by streaming sats.

The media constantly pitting one group group against another.

I see more bigger cars on the roads now. The cars before Y2K are now the size of today's mini coopers. I also notice a big wave of suvs more common on the roads now. Could this be the end of sedans and sports cars? Also, flat screen computer monitors, flat screen tvs, and smaller computers gives more space in the rooms now.

I think I didn't have a mobile phone until around 2002. So everything people do on their phone & everything on the internet too.

Crazy to think what could be possible just 23 years later too!

• Smart phones (in a meaningful way)

I was going to say neural networks but it looks like they date back to 1944.^[1]

1. https://news.mit.edu/2017/explained-neural-networks-deep-learning-0414 ↩

iPhone

the patriot act
PRISM
wikileaks
thepiratebay (?)

apart from the fact that most of the people got dumber?
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