iwrite Grace Goulson

If I had grown up in the 1980s I would have experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, the heyday of Michael Jackson, and the premiere of ET, but perhaps the most important development of the 80s I would have seen was that of the Internet. Had I grown up in that time when the World Wide Web was just a baby and the “smartphone” hadn’t even been thought of, my life would have been so drastically different. I’d have been forced to directly interact with others, because that’s the only choice I would have had. I wouldn’t have the world at my fingertips, or rather, in my pocket, and writing this blog post would have been much more difficult and complicated. That’s the way life should be—a life where we have no choice but to interact with people face-to-face and where we have to physically go to the library to find out that information for our homework assignment. People these days have become too dependent on their precious technology and oftentimes are uncomfortable with going about life as if there was no technology. I would prefer to have grown up 20 years ago, though I must admit that technology is pretty darn amazing and helpful nowadays.