Not trying to be egotistical but I really think Millennials and some early genZ (at least in the west+Japan) had the most transformative, and possibly fulfilling childhoods. The pace of visible and perceptible tech change were unparalleled.
Basically if you had a childhood without a computer, and then got a computer before you hit adulthood crystallized intelligence, you experienced the biggest social-technological change ever in human history, while also being able to navigate in the "after" phase. And also our generation was unique in that the change happened all at once within only 10 years' time, while stuff like cars, electricity, etc were rolled out much more gradually over a longer time span
Web 1.0 was so fucking cozy. Everything after 2012 sucks and everything after 2017 ultrasucks
I also think we're probably the most alarmed generation on some deep emotional level because of the huge contrast between our child/adolescent lives and our adult lives (at least for the ones who're paying attention)
As a late millenial, I kinda disagree, maybe its just from being in a family that had computers in some form for most my childhood life. All I've seen as I've grown up are cool improvements in tech being increasingly misused, in a world where we are in a never ending recession and austerity culture and it's never ever time to have fun or relax. I don't feel like there's any meaningful contrast between the shittiness of then and the shittiness of now, except remembering that the early internet benefitted so much in its first 10-20 years from being untouched by old rich fucks and corporations.
Then I look at photographs of my parents and they were out in their late teens and twenties roaming and rocking, rather than worrying about finances and jobs and their lives being controlled, they tell tales of when you could just walk into a building and get a job and you were set - I wasn't there but it looks a lot more fulfilling than my younger days.
It really depends on where you're living. The 90s boom on the west was built practically on top of decades of dictatorships and shock doctrine on latin america for example. If you were in Mexico during the 90s, your parents' lifetime savings had just vanished on an unprecedented devaluation. The outlook was poor as hell.
People try to compare climate dread to the fear of nuclear war in the 80s. And it's like okay boomer: nuclear war was a possibility. Climate change is going to happen. The window to stop it closed forty years ago. The end of the world is locked in.
Not trying to be egotistical but I really think Millennials and some early genZ (at least in the west+Japan) had the most transformative, and possibly fulfilling childhoods. The pace of visible and perceptible tech change were unparalleled.
Basically if you had a childhood without a computer, and then got a computer before you hit adulthood crystallized intelligence, you experienced the biggest social-technological change ever in human history, while also being able to navigate in the "after" phase. And also our generation was unique in that the change happened all at once within only 10 years' time, while stuff like cars, electricity, etc were rolled out much more gradually over a longer time span
Web 1.0 was so fucking cozy. Everything after 2012 sucks and everything after 2017 ultrasucks
I also think we're probably the most alarmed generation on some deep emotional level because of the huge contrast between our child/adolescent lives and our adult lives (at least for the ones who're paying attention)
As a late millenial, I kinda disagree, maybe its just from being in a family that had computers in some form for most my childhood life. All I've seen as I've grown up are cool improvements in tech being increasingly misused, in a world where we are in a never ending recession and austerity culture and it's never ever time to have fun or relax. I don't feel like there's any meaningful contrast between the shittiness of then and the shittiness of now, except remembering that the early internet benefitted so much in its first 10-20 years from being untouched by old rich fucks and corporations.
Then I look at photographs of my parents and they were out in their late teens and twenties roaming and rocking, rather than worrying about finances and jobs and their lives being controlled, they tell tales of when you could just walk into a building and get a job and you were set - I wasn't there but it looks a lot more fulfilling than my younger days.
Imagine the 70s. No aids, everyone dressed like a complete asshole. Disco. Leaded gas. What a time to alive.
I'm for sure not saying the 70's were good, or were better in every way. But for most peoples' childhoods, I'd guess more fulfilling.
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It really depends on where you're living. The 90s boom on the west was built practically on top of decades of dictatorships and shock doctrine on latin america for example. If you were in Mexico during the 90s, your parents' lifetime savings had just vanished on an unprecedented devaluation. The outlook was poor as hell.
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People try to compare climate dread to the fear of nuclear war in the 80s. And it's like okay boomer: nuclear war was a possibility. Climate change is going to happen. The window to stop it closed forty years ago. The end of the world is locked in.
Also nuclear war is something that's entirely within the geopolitical system. You can't negotiate with climate change