She lives with us, so every day. She grew up in a society where even extended families all lived in the same town, so better ways to communicate don’t really impress her. (My dad, who went to boarding school, does find it very impresssive.) She was also rich in Bangladesh, so she doesn’t have much positive to say on the consumer goods front either. Obviously that’s a highly specific viewpoint. I do think though, there is something generalizable about the idea that folks of a certain generation don’t find communications technology that amazing because (1) they don’t work in a profession that’s really been changed by it; (2) they’re from communities where families lived in close contact and video chat seems like a step down.

As to people living on the moon: she grew up with America being this frontier that was very inspiring. I think she sees space travel the same way (also, probably bias from reading a lot of sci-fi of the time).