Technology

I always talk about how life and trends are just a pendulum, And how it swings, and that I have this hope for the generation(s) after me swinging the pendulum in the other direction. I'm born in '87. We embraced technology to the fullest. And now, unfortunately, technology has been ruined, in the fashion of things gaining popularity going to shit. Way she goes.

I have this idea that the pendulum will come back to a point where kids want to separate themselves from the lens of the internet, where you'll be chastised for using your phone. And perhaps this is just some strange (anti?)dystopian story in the making, but a tale as old as time is kids being like "That's not cool, fuck that shit." I'm just hopeful that "that shit" is tiktok and its ilk.

If this was asked in China, I bet nobody would seriously say "I wanna live in the past"

(at least not in the context of traveling back to the 1950s or something like that...)

Does GenZ want to live in the past?

I think it’s just normal for new generations to revive cultural elements of past eras with a kind of nostalgia, even though they weren’t really present for them. For millennials, it was the 80s and even the early to mid 20th century.

Gen-Z is thinks the 90s were cool and is bringing back a bit of that.

Discomfort with new modem technology shapes frustration as no modern terminal application has ZModem support.