The censored line is “i’ve lived through a global pandemic”. Not sure why it should be scrubbed out. To create curiosity?
Global pandemic got memory holed when we collectively decided to pretend it’s over.
Are my aunt’s shitty Facebook posts leaking into the Fediverse?
How come you never wear the sweater I gave you?
Its just a little itchy. I’ll wear it when I see you at Thanksgiving.
Not so long ago, people were born when the only flying machine was a mongolfier and the peak energy technology was boiling water with coal.
The, suddenly when they die, we walked on the moon and boil water by literraly converting mass to heat.
Our generation is a scientific joke.
This post was lame even before you censored it.
I wonder what got censored out
What is censored?
I’ve also lived through NFTs and Beanie Babies. The argument that “technological advancements have happened in the past therefore such-and-such isn’t a scam” only goes so far.
I’m waiting for driverless bicycles. /s Not really.
Still waiting for my bicycle-powered helicopter, the future is a lie.
Settle for a helicopter-powered bicycle?
I suppose you could attach some pedals to a Y2K Superbike and call it a bicycle
Some of that stuff I lived through but imagining it is hard. Like it is hard to imagine what I used to do before social media but do my homework from school because I was a kid when social media (Myspace) came out. Sadly I wasn’t online when precursors to Myspace came out. Now, I can’t even imagine what Myspace used to be like. Like remember fully customizing the code of your entire profile? Customizing the theme, editing it and adding extra HTML?
Were they in a coma for Blu-Ray?
Not to mention Betamax…
I’m pretty sure that every generation has had this sentiment. The world has always changed drastically, regardless of which 30+ year window you are looking through.
After the 1900s, sure. Prior to that, technological shifts were few and far in-between. The time between bronze tools and steel tools is 2000 years. The time between the first flight and the moon landing is 66 years. Cell phones now have more computing power than the moon lander had.
It’s a modern phenomenon that historically significant technological changes are happening several times in a person’s life.
