The English science fiction writer Douglas Adams (author of *The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*) once proposed three laws of technology in a darkly humorous way:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Applying these three laws of technology can, to some extent, explain why some people think technologies like 5G and quantum communication are useless, wasteful, and shouldn't be developed at all.
Because they've gotten old.
Of course, in Shen Feng's homeland, the Hua Country, there was also a small group of people who were just used to kneeling.
