Published on 12, July, 2020
I've borrowed this question from something intimated in another thread.
Do you think life has improved for you as you have grown older?
Is it because society has changed or you/your life have changed or a combination?
There was a comparison in another thread with 1980.
I realise some of the readers here won't even have been born then!
I could write a long list of ways in which my life has improved since 1980, both on a personal level and on a 'society' level.
Where 'society' is concerned, the invention of the internet has made me much less isolated, much more knowledgeable, much more in control of my health and not at the mercy of the NHS.
I wouldn't know about my autism and many other things without it.
Also, mobile phones/texting and email mean that I no longer have to make phone calls (including from phone boxes!).
I could go on but I might even bore myself.
There is really very little I miss about 1980, except perhaps a quieter pace of life in general.
It's an interesting question and we all have a past, no matter how far back it goes.
How is it for you.
Better or worse?
Well now..1.no education 2.no jobs..blimey need I go on..I absolutely feel sorry for the younger generation..in the 80's you could do any degree for free and I had 2 jobs on go at one point..if I wanted to do something I pressed 1 button yes 1 LOL now if I accidently touch my phone I've ordered a pizza.im being sold double glazing and I've accidently emailed an embarrassing photo to the whole company that I pay my bills too..and oh yes the police are knocking at the door because I may have said something somewhere on the Internet and that's before I've dealt with spam telling me I'm being blackmailed because I like to do inappropriate things to pigs LOL which I don't ofcourse but you have to see the funny side or you go crazy
NAS83342 said:but you have to see the funny side or you go crazy
I think this is correct, but I cannot shake the overwhelming undercurrent of doom-laden portent oozing out of everybody's "little black mirrors" and other tech devices - with ever increasing ferocity of flow. I feel that a mass awakening to the risks at play is required PDQ.