Sometimes I wonder if future generations will write about my generation as the ones who were crazy or had a hard time coping due to the influx and speed of new technologies and the advent of a connected culture. That the future generations will view us as simpletons or backwards the same way we look back at European medieval hygiene or medicine. That to them its such an every day common sense type of subject, whereas now it is so new and different.
We grew up knowing the world without the internet, then dial up came and the internet was declared a "fad", then cable internet became mainstream, then social media.
We have seen records, cassette tapes, cds, mp3, smart phones, streaming in such a short time span compared to before and maybe after our generation.
We've seen movies in theaters, on TV, using laser disks, tapes, dvds, blu ray, streaming
Vehicals that started changing to more eco friendly cars, to straight electric ones.
Will generations after us view us and say we were putting the the horse before the cart? That we had it wrong and it was obvious we needed to move that way? The older generations could have bought a car and it lasted them 20-30 years. Our generation changes cars in a fraction of that time.
Are we just the generation suffering the birthing pains of something new that future generations will not only take for granted, and since we have one foot in the past and one foot in the present that we just can't comprehend what we are experiencing in the now? That nostalgia is such a prevalent thing now because its what we cling to as a simpler time before things became so complicated? That it makes the young feel old before their time?