![]() ![]() ![]() (Who am I kidding? No one talks on the phone anymore!) We demand faster and faster connectivity, and we get huffy when the phone rings more than two times. I had to abandon two laptops, a great iPod and an iPad because Apple left them behind, and would not “support that device any longer.” Raise your hand if you have that drawer full of outdated gadgets and unrequited power cords that you just can’t give up on. We update operating systems every few weeks or months, we upgrade our devices, and we replace things instead of fixing them (too costly and there’s a newer one that’s cheaper than the old one was new). In some ways, we have now become so accustomed to rapid change that it is the norm. The moon walk was 54 years ago, and the changes in technology and lifestyle since then are well-documented but no less astonishing. Today, at 93, I imagine that Aldrin is still funny and smart, still doing his best to keep up with the world around him. He called that photo as “the first extraterrestrial selfie.” The college students laughed at his joke, but he was right-that was a selfie. I went to hear Aldrin give a talk to college students about seven years ago, and he showed that famous image of Armstrong with himself reflected in Armstrong’s visor. Jis the day that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out of Apollo 11’s lunar module, the Eagle, and into history. ![]()
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