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What was so simple about rewinding cassettes and dialing into your internet provider? I’m in my 40s and I much prefer the simplicity of Wikipedia versus loading up a Microsoft Encarta CD.
To be fair, telephones aren’t that old (1876) and their widespread use required people to start remembering 7 digit numbers. Modern tech is finally removing that heavy burden ha ha.
The day where tech falls into the background or disappears will ground us back into hard work and the appropriate balance of discipline versus “insta”-dopamine.
Those days were great due to the right balance of things.
Yup!! ^^ This is what I am saying. It's like, I don't hate tech I'm just saying that I think we had a great balance of both back then. There's nothing wrong with putting in a little more work to rewind tapes. I think it somehow makes for good character when you're not depending on Alexa or the Astro bot to do everything for you. Just saying 🤷♂️
I'm dumbstruck that this entire thread has happened without so much as a mention of the incoming climate apocalypse. Loss of simplicity in futuristic consumer technologies are the last concern on my mind.
I love stuff from that time. I was just a little kid but I have so many good memories from it.
Yes, we are between the dotcom crash and the next crash.
Same here. 80's baby but I think I should have been born in the 60's or 70's so I'm way behind you.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. It needs to be resisted as much as possible. The relativism breeds derivative thinking and retrogression. We've just come out of a period of 12-13 years where it seemed like everything in the culture aspired to "revive" the 80s and now we seem to be doing the same with the 90s. We need more gratitude for what we have today and greater perspective.
Reflection on the “good ol’ times”, memories, and understanding our past helps guide us into the future. Not necessarily towards technological retrogression.
But if we’re losing our humanity in the process, or bringing about “progress” by building tools we don’t yet understand the impact of, I’ll accept the retrogression. In some measure we should pursue it.
We can still become an advanced “multi-planetary species” and preserve our humanity in the process.
No. Enjoying your past and appreciating the present and the future. A great place for those who remember the “good ol’days”.
The only way to survive technology and benefit from it yourself is that we need to learn what's the intention behind it and then practice it, you will not just jump from Walkman's to VR.. VR and metaverse in my opinion is just a hype that Facebook is using to create new brand after so many law suits and whistle blowers, but remember to buy an oculus it cost $300 a Piece, so don't let media scare you it will not change the world overnight, it will take years and years.
However i recommend you introduce yourself to crypto lol :)
I wonder sometimes if it's not just nostalgia. Do I yearn for the days of BBSing because it was simpler or because my life was simpler? I do feel that with each tech innovation the bar rises so each new things needs to wow people even more. It can be hard to find the amazing inventions today.
Anyone who participated in usenet or fidonet discussions during the BBS days can see the inevitable scaling of online flame wars to what we see today. The past was not any better... Nostalgia is addictive but insidious
I love tech and work in tech. I grew up in Silicon Valley and played with prototypes, built computers, etc. However, I agree that--today--we need to be selective, or become overwhelmed. I appreciate my laptop, smartphone, and iPad. A Ring doorbell might be useful. But, I don't need an Alexa, smart fridge, or drone. Electronic banking is also useful as well. However, I also think it is healthy for people to disconnect, read a physical book, and physically go shopping. It is important to interact and tactically experience and learn from the physical world.
Sort of. I like modern tech but I exist in one of the most stuck in the past hobbies of all time - ham radio. I do long for simpler days but I like modern conveniences. One thing I wish we could go back to was having more privacy and less surveillance. Seems like everything today is tracked by every entity wanting to make a profit
And somehow, my internet feels slower than it did on my AOL trial back in the day.