So did it bring back a sense of that early magic and revolution? Let’s find out.
My wish was quite literally granted over Xmas when the ‘Leap Motion’ landed in my lap, offering a new way to interact with my computer. I still love gadgets, but recently I’ve been hoping for something a bit different to leap out and rekindle my interest. But in real life, it’s a marginal improvement at best and any sense of magic has passed. Fast forward to today, is the leap from iPhone 6 to 6S really so great? On paper, maybe. Grow up with it and you know no different.ĭevices of that time now appear crude, but each generation was so different from the last and huge leaps were being made every six months, it was exciting at the time. I got to marvel at the revolution and genuinely sensed magic around the potential we were being offered.
Sadly, this makes me old enough for confused teenagers today to ask me what the hell I did before the internet, their eyes full of pity for the years of nothingness I must have experienced until Facebook and Snapchat made life worth living.Īpart from some mild envy of youth, I’m actually glad I was already an adult when the internet itself came of age. I was in my early twenties when the world-wide-web and, shortly after, mobile phones went mainstream.
