It would be surreal coming back into the world from the time of pagers and this new Information Superhighway.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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What a bad article. I mean, good for him, but expected that there was a further insight of how people are attached to their phones, other than just a single quote in the headline.
Here is another, similar story of someone that has been incarcerated for 44 years which gives more insight into the changes that have been happening while being locked up in prison, although the article focuses more around legislative implications.
Oh, I read "bones". Really wanted to know what they did in that prison.
Man imprisoned in 1900 and released in 1950 wonders why everyone reads newspapers and drives cars.
Man imprisoned in the 60's and released in the 2010's would have his mind blown
LOL, newspapers exploded around 1830. :) Maybe, 'using electricity and driving cars'.
Yeah, magazines would have made more sense.
Was thinking on magazines standing in line at CVS. They had quite a selection so I assume people still buy them, but who?! GenX is well beyond caring and most Boomers are tech literate enough. Weird.
I remember all those kids going door to door selling magazine subscriptions when I was a teenager. Obviously people still buy them. I think my wife got a Vogue last time we traveled but that was a few years ago and we had not bought one since we last traveled a few years before that.
So we have bought two magazines in the last five years or so. I would be interested to see just who is still buying them. I read somewhere that they are more popular than newspapers.
And soon he will be too.
So what?
As I read this from my phone. Not sure how to feel.