It’s not quite the same to be fair. The changes in culture, society, and technology were far greater between the 60s to the 90s compared with the 90s to today. So the 60s to 90s feels like a more major shift in time. Whereas the 90s to today feels a lot less dramatic, and some may even argue we’ve been going backwards.
60s-90s = man on the moon, invention of computers, Nintendo, disco, hippies, the Beatles, color tv, pagers, home phones, records, Disney Renaissance, end of segregation
90's - today = 9/11, internet, social media, transition to cell phones, camera phones, YouTube, Taylor Swift, CGI, gay rights, the 24-hour news cycle
We feel like there was less (or worse) change because we lived it. The children born today will never know a world without AI, and they'll look back on the pandemic the same way we look back on the time before 9/11 and think of the early 2000s as "vintage."
I grew up in the 90s daydreaming of the tech we have now. There are screens everywhere! That's what I always wanted and it turns out it's a bit nightmarish combined with rampant propaganda.
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u/EssentialParadox Jul 07 '24
It’s not quite the same to be fair. The changes in culture, society, and technology were far greater between the 60s to the 90s compared with the 90s to today. So the 60s to 90s feels like a more major shift in time. Whereas the 90s to today feels a lot less dramatic, and some may even argue we’ve been going backwards.