Hey, look: the International Space Station.

On my phone.

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I understand that it’s not that big a deal – it’s certainly not that great a picture – by 2014 standards; but… wow. I still have a teenager inside of me that simply cannot believe that I’m playing with all of these wonderful toys. I kind of don’t want to lose that feeling, honestly.

The me of twenty years ago would be astounded…

…at the way that we can casually have our computers multitask, say, playing a MMO while listening to an outside internet radio station playing content specifically dedicated to that MMO.  Shoot, I routinely play now with a bunch of people from Europe because the time zones work out that way when you’re a stay-at-home.  And it all just happened.  No need to regulate the process where the future became the present.

:significant cough: