There is a generation that has lived through one of the greatest transformations in human history: the transition from a world without the internet to a reality where artificial intelligence is part of our daily lives. This is the generation that has seen the birth of technologies that today seem commonplace, but were once revolutionary inventions.
It is the generation that remembers a world without the Internet. A world where news was read in newspapers, where photos were developed in stores, and where communication came via a phone call from a home landline. And then, before his eyes, everything changed. Then came the first computers – large, expensive, slow machines that entered homes as a strange novelty, often more of a curiosity than a necessity. It took hours to play a simple game, and an Internet connection that took up the phone line. But for those who experienced it, it was the first step towards a world that would become increasingly digital.
The Internet, initially unknown and elusive, transformed the way we learned, worked, and connected with others.
Then came flip phones, which became a symbol of the new freedom to communicate anywhere. But that was just the beginning. With the advent of the iPhone and then smartphones, the world was glued to the small screen that brought everything to our fingertips: memories, conversations, books, maps and, later, the voice of artificial intelligence. Today, we are living a new chapter: the age of AI. From programs that write texts and create images, to machines that learn themselves and apps that know us better than we know ourselves, the change is so great that we often take it for granted. For the generation that has seen all this evolution, it is a vivid reminder of how quickly the world can change.