GTFO newfag.

1976 here

>>8694387
>Associating age with faggotry
>Not realizing that newfag is a newfag term

so many stupid questions... its like the ramblings of a drunk infant

>I don't think the advancements will be as dramatic as they were about 15 years ago.

I'm sure somebody said this before the PC was introduced.

Most of us still haven't been through a major recession.

I'm nearly certain we'll be remembered as the generation which shaped the internet.

If you think technology has slowed down, you may need to adjust your news feeds. It's only getting faster. I mean, holy fuck, jetpacks. Youtube. For fuck's sake.

We are living in the age of decadence. "The Fate of Empires" by Sir John Glubb (some british WW2 general) ... read it, it's just 25 pages, and it's online and it opens your eyes.

Considering you live in an age with the fastest computers providing 24/7 connection to the outside world with shit like cell phones, twitter, youtube, and what have you as well as ALL THE COLLECTIVE INFORMATION OF HUMANITY I say you have it pretty good.

>>8694433
http://www.arlev.clara.net/glubb/index.htm <- there

>>8694409
lol "ramblings of a drunk infant"

>is slowling down somewhat

It's the beginning of the end of history. The first-world is beginning to wind down, with life becoming more stable and less eventful. Hopefully the rest of the world will follow suit as it continues to develop. Eventually, we will see an Earth where the only events worth recording are positive achievements (science and technology, space exploration, ect) and natural disasters. Human history will grind to a halt. If nothing goes wrong between now and that happy point in the future.

>>8694387
i don't think you know the definition of newfag. Also the statements in OP are still true even if you were bron in the 70's

>>8694454
This point in history was reached many times before, in many civilizations...

>Are we living in somewhat stable and boring times?

The internet was invented during our lifetimes. Fuck no this shit is not boring.

the time period of the 90's where more people started to buy personal computers (they were no longer for nerds) was a pretty eventful time in history. Now plenty of people have a video game console in their home as well compared to 20 years ago.

The last 10 years hasn't really shown anything major happen besides the whole terrorism thing and financial crisis though

>>8694425
jetpacks will probably not be widespread in the next decade at least. Therefore it doesn't really affect the daily lives of most people. Something like the rise of cell phones has a direct affect on people day to day.

Technology is getting faster and faster. But it seems like everything that can be done with the current technolgy already has. And anything that can't be done, is not around the corner, but decades away. Hover cars etc

>>8694513
And, you know, the web. Wikipedia did not exist ten years ago. Google only barely.

>>8694409
this post, by that stunned baby.

>>8694575
Not to mention 4chan.

we are living in an era that is deeply fucked up on so many levels I don't even know where to start. yes, these are "exciting times".

I think we're a shit generation, the internet has spoiled our minds, nobody has the patience to learn anything deeply, everybody is a dilettante.

>>8694363
We live in the twitter age. @jill29 hey guys I'm taking a shit at Mcdonalds!

>>8694603
Well, if you read history ever era there is something "fucked up" because we're human.

>>8694604
Not many people ever had the patience to learn anything. The internet has made that information more readily accessible for those who do, and maybe a little will rub off on those that don't.

These times are fucking amazing, are you kidding?

I think Carl Sagan said something about this before. You and I are living in the era where mankind is taking its first tentative steps into space. A man will have walked on mars by the time we're dead. Think about that.

This is a fucking amazing time to be alive.

>>8694513
LLVM and clang became self-hosting just a few days ago! If that is not a major breakthrough in human history, then what?

>>8694664
Not really, Obama decided to shut down the space program to send astronauts back to the moon and mars.

Keep dreaming.

>>8694664
didn't NASA just get totally shafted for funding? like four or five months ago?

well, I call this age the "Information Age"

makes myself feel special

:3

Do I like the era that I'm living in? Absolutely. Why? BECAUSE I CAN STREAM PORN. Play PS3 ONLINE.

Fuck yeah niggers.

>>8694664
seeing a man go to mars for the first time is not as exciting as seeing a man go to the moon for the first time. Sure going to mars is a huge accomplishment. But to most, it wouldn't be anywhere near as exciting as the moon landing.

Exciting would be if they had an amusement park on the moon where you could visit.

>>8694714
Yes. Not only that, he told them to discontinue the program and I believe there may be a bill passed for no money from taxes to go to space programs.

Honestly this may be an improvement. Privatizing space research/ventures.

Its worth mentioning, going to any of these places is worthless right now unless they have a valuable resource on/in them.

Even then its just not practical right now, its to expensive.

>>8694433
Decadence is the word elderly people use for fun they were born too late to experience.

There has never been a better time and place to live than right now, in a first-world nation. We are the very tip of 200,000 years of human history. It's not perfect but we're well on our way.

>>8694748
>>implying the moon landing wasn't fake staged in hollywood

>>8694731
Broad band internet is fucking fantastic. I am old enough to remember a time before internet. So I went through the whole dial up stage and shit.

Before if you wanted to watch a movie, you had to go to the video store to get a VHS tape. Now you just go on the net and can watch it there within hours. Or you can stream it.

Porn is accessible to anyone with a net connection. In the old days, porn was magazines and some VHS tapes. None of this new content available all the time on the net.

I spend hundreds of dollars on porno mags

It's a great time to be alive. The very fact that a drop out like me can make a decent living on the Internet, and holy shit Dead Space on the ps3 is like watching a fucking movie.

Who here can't wait for the next gen consoles like PS4 and XBOX3?

This thread makes me happy. I get fucking furious when I hear people complaining about how shitty the modern times are. Glad to see most of /r9k/ has their heads on straight.

>>8694784
LOL yeah I remember being a 12 years old faggot on AOL and free internet. I remember downloading kazaa and waiting 16 hours for a 69 mbs porn video.

LOL

>>8694767
And exactly this is what has happened many times before -> http://www.arlev.clara.net/glubb/index.htm

Civilizations seeing themselves as the cream of the crop, the best which ever lived, in the best world there ever was.

And they were all right. And they are all gone.

We are taking the first baby steps into space tourism. Virgin is coming out with a commercial space flight in the next few years. Just think when we are old farts our shitty ass grandkids will ask us if we ever thought we could fly to space for a day. And we say "fuck no, astronauts are just a bunch of faggots"

While the pace of technology is very exciting, I think that people will still remember the 2000s as being worse than the 70s.

>>8694795
>make a decent living on the Internet
Do tell? Not too many options left at this point.