1974

How would your life have been different if you'd grown up 20 years earlier? How would you interact with others? Do you think your relationships then would differ from your present relationships? Which time period would you prefer and why?


If I would have been born in 1974 as a posed to 1994 my childhood would have been very different. My sense of auto correct would have been on my type-writer (if my family could afford something that fancy) and the most instantaneous form of receiving information was through an encyclopedia or dictionary. Maybe I would be more patient and resourceful. Not expecting information to throw itself at me simply by typing in my entry and clicking "search". Would I be smarter? I would have to be confident about the spellings of words before typing them, there isn't auto correct and research would be tediously flipping through books. I would know how to correctly navigate myself around a library and probably be a better writer (with all of those letters as a posed to texting short choppy half sentences).

However life and technology today makes life exponentially easier. If I need to ask my mom to pick me up I send her a text. If my car breaks down and all I do is press the tool button on my rear view mirror. If I misspell a word, back space and re-type. If I need to get a hold of a teacher I send them an e-mail. Everyone is much better connected. However, this can lead to relationships hidden behind machines as a posed to face-to-face interaction. Which are two very different ways at looking at relationships.

So saying whether or not we are better off or what not is hard to say. Life is just...different. Not better or worse. Just different. There are positives and negatives to both time periods of life, but I have to say I like my technology and without it I don't know how I would get through my day.