“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 fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Does not check out. One of the things I was highly excited about was RF communication. It still is. Another thing was LASERs and it still is.

Computers also was one of them. But modern media boxes are not exciting. Microcontrollers though, are still exciting.