“I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. 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.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things.”
Source: Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (2002).
Related: The innovative/entrepreneurial character set: creativity, initiative, guts, perseverence, honesty, trade, pride of success. How what enables business success maps onto virtue ethics:
