time bandits
Damn this makes me feel old... this movie was made 40 YEARS AGO? How is this possible. Feels like last week.
I guess it depends on when you were born.
I was born in the 1940s so I still kinda think of the 1950s as being "modern".
You know: transistors replacing vacuum tubes, jets replacing propeller airliners, rock&roll replacing swing, computer punchcards, beatniks, etc... ultra modern.
I still think of Eminem as being recent even though many here weren't even born when he was recording.
My grandmother was born in a time of horses and buggies, kerosene lamps and telegraphs. By the time she died at the age of 97 she'd seen the coming of electric lights, cars, radios, airplanes, income taxes, 2 world wars, the great depression, the atom bomb, television, men on the moon and computers in people's homes.
I remember horses on the streets of Toronto, washboards, iceboxes, shellac records, and vacuum tube radios and coal furnaces, but I was quick to jump into computers, the internet, peer-to-peer filesharing, decentralization and of course Bitcoin.
You can relate to the past without being stuck in it.
Oh yes, what was before me was always there. What changed while I was a child was significant changes in the world. Everything after passes before my eyes much faster. The viscosity of time and space changes so much... What was far and great, now close and small, what lasted a whole day, now flies by in just a day... For today's teenagers, bitcoin will be what it always was, and the pre-bitcoin times will be somewhere in the same place as the pre-internet, pre-personal computers, and dinosaurs.