“I wish I was born later”

Marco Arment / @marcoarment:

Grandpa: “I wish I was born later.”

Me too. In particular, I wish I were born where born around 1990, so I could take advantage of the web in my formative years for technical information instead of spending lots of money on now-obsolete books.

This also strikes me as a good metric for humanity’s progress. There’s not a time in the past I’d rather have been born in. It makes me think the “best” time to be born is still in our future.

Jul 25 2011