Obviously I didn't make my point clearly, because your examples confirm what I'm thinking. Electronic music has been around for ages - I was a great fan of Kra

Obviously I didn't make my point clearly, because your examples confirm what I'm thinking. Electronic music has been around for ages - I was a great fan of Kraftwerk. Your kids have huge amounts of music, I had a bit - they are doing the same thing, just more of it. You love VSCode - but you're using it to cut code at the same (or similar) level of complexity to what I was cutting 40 years ago. Maybe quicker, or easier, but essentially the same activity. Comms is cheaper and easier (I remember when email became a thing - wow - we had a stable route from Oz to MIT - back in the uucp days!) but we're doing what we always did - talking and writing to each other. Where are the new things? The things that didn't exist previously? What are we using this tech for, that we just couldn't do before? The only answers that has been a little convincing is gaming and big data. It wasn't possible/practical to do large scale simulation before. But many of our games are largely the same old activities ... shoot-em-ups, DnD. The tiny "retro" games might be one of few things that just didn't exist before "micro" tech. And big data (eg. ChatGPT) just wasn't possible before enormous amounts of accessible data ... but it's looking like it's just a great Eliza :(