Some interesting items on this list.

Most are just technology advances, but some are more subtle parts of life:

Forgotten anything else: Kids born this year will never know what it was like to stand in a bar and incessantly argue the unknowable. Today the world’s collective knowledge is on the computer in your pocket or purse. And since you have it with you at all times, why bother remembering anything?

I still look back and chuckle a little at the idea (and I think I’ve mentioned it before around here) of not knowing something and that being that. If you didn’t know, you just didn’t know. Who was that actor in that one movie? You could argue with someone forever – until the movie was on TV or a concensus was formed, you just didn’t know. Power was in the hands of those with knowledge. Now the power lies with anyone capable of using the knowledge that is readily available to all. It’s a subtle, but significant, difference. “Being smart” doesn’t necessarily equate to “knowing stuff” any more. That’s a pretty major shift.

No real point beyond that. For me, it’s one of the more interesting aspects of how things have changed in the past 10 or 15 years. Fun little list though.

I still have a big box of VHS tapes that I keep putting off converting to digital. I really should do that.