Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. — Reed Hastings

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Author: Reed Hastings

Insight: We still do this today—calling ours the "Digital Age" or "Information Age"—but it reveals something uncomfortable: we've outsourced our identity to our tools. In 500 years, historians might define us not by our values or discoveries, but by what we were addicted to using.

Source: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, p. 3, 2020

We still do this today—calling ours the "Digital Age" or "Information Age"—but it reveals something uncomfortable: we've outsourced our identity to our tools. In 500 years, historians might define us not by our values or discoveries, but by what we were addicted to using.

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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Reed Hastings

Source: No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, p. 3, 2020