My Childhood Sucked – Technology Now vs Then Ep2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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918 words · ~4 min read
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so Lenovo approached us about sponsoring a piece showcasing their new Lenovo Yoga
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book it's a thin light Android tablet with high-end specs including an Intel
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Atom Processor 64 gigs of storage and 4 gigs of RAM and a touch sensitive haptic
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keyboard that they call the Halo keyboard which serves two functions when
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you want to type a standard keyboard layout illuminates and you get this
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haptic feedback as you type in place instead of using physical buttons and
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when you prefer to take notes draw or even color the keyboard vanishes
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completely and you use a stylus in this case one with 248 pressure levels called
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the real pen that lets you draw and even
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write on paper having it instantly digitized it's a totally unique piece of
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technology and once again as I was watching my kids break it in for me I
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found myself thinking the world they growing up in is so different from the
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one that I did and here are nine reasons
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why
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number one when I was little my parents had to hang on to physical copies of my
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let's generously use the term artwork if
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they wanted to preserve them for the benefit of future humil excuse me odd
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Generations yeah my dad actually hold held on to this for years apparently and
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gave it to me as a gift for my 30 th birthday I love my parents but they're a
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little uh weird sometimes and if you've ever had a kid in preschool you'll know
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that this creates some significant logistical issues though most folks
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figure out a solution because it sure beats admitting that you lost it why did
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you lose it modern kids have a multitude
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of amazing tools to make life much easier and eliminate excuses nothing can
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ever be lost under the fridge again
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mostly number two in inviting kids over to play was a totally different matter I
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mean this was considered a legitimate form of communication do you want to
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come over and play nowadays no one even blinks when your four-year-old is
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texting his group chat to organize a play date number three taking pictures
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is so much better now do you know what I would have given to be able to see in
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such clear detail what exactly it was I was capturing not to mention the instant
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gratification and viewfinders being only an approximate representation of the
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framing was the tip of the iceberg so darn it we kept our photos Because by
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the time we got them we'd invested so much into getting them no matter how
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blurry or poorly composed they were oh
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God number four coloring books weren't
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so trendy I mean sure kids liked them
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but parents for the most part seemed to have other things on their minds not so
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today number five and I'm actually not sure who had it better for this one when
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I screwed up at a little league sporting event I lost the game and I didn't get
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to go for pizza after nowadays it seems
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like everyone gets a prize regardless of skill or actual results so I guess
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that's pretty cool but my generation never had to worry about our mistakes
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turning us into minor internet celebrities number six when I was little
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we had stupid fads that consumed all of our pocket money I mean come on all you
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30-year-olds raise your hand and if you didn't boast in the schoolyard about
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your new Slammer at some point or another with that said at least when we
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bought useless crap at least we got physical useless crap though number
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seven physical isn't always an
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advantage this is a big improvement
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though I will say that rage quitting loses a little bit of its impact number
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eight the Pokémon experience was totally different when I was a kid people would
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stare at me walking around catching pocket monsters and go kids today faces
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buried in their screens they don't even look where they're going nowadays hey
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there's a map built right into the game totally different finally number nine
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when I was a kid I think it's fair to say that there was less courage in the
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world sure we had the courage to pay $20
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an hour in batteries to pull the wall plugs out of our boom boxes and even the
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courage to play music wirelessly on the go but we drew the line at headphones no
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it would take another 25 years for someone to have that kind of Courage
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that is to say 25 plus however much longer it takes so thank you for
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watching guys huge shout out to Lenovo for sponsoring this video and providing
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us with their yoga book that served as the inspiration for many of the then
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versus now seets so you can find out more about the yoga B B at the link in
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the video description we'll have a link to the purchase page down there and if
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you're more interested in some additional video coverage you can actually click up here to find a couple
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of videos from other creators covering this very product and as always you can
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subscribe and like below and all of that good stuff thanks for watching and we'll
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see you guys next time