These past couple of weeks, I have noticed something that I never noticed before: I find it hard to identify with the world that existed before computers. This is especially clear when reading books. A lot of books I read, have been written over five years ago. That is not a long time, but it was still a time where computers were either not that mainstream yet, or they were these huge, slow, old beasts. When I read about cops (yes, that's often the kind of book I read) trying to solve a mystery and typing out reports on a typewriter, or trying to get some mainframe computer to match some data from files, it occurs to me how much the world has changed. It seems as if I cannot pass a single desk in an office, without it holding a computer. Yet here I am, reading books where computers are not every-day items, and where the main characters are still impressed by computing powers. The same observation goes for movies and television series. Just very surprising to realize that I never realized this before. Of course there is also the thing about books and movies containing computers that do the worlds utmost ridiculous things, but that is yet another issue.