The Tragedy of Cato

Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show Podcast · Oct 12, 2022 · 33m

My son likes to ask me the question about what I would have thought about today's technology back when I was his age. when I was in the 4th grade, we actually had to do a written assignment where we would try to explain football to a person from a hundred years before.

When Ben asked me about the fabulous iPhone 14, I began to realize something. When I was twelve (like him), I would have been insanely jealous of today's tech. It would neither have amazed me or scared me. I would have seen it as the logical extension of things and indeed, as Star Trek coming to life!

Which brought me around to…