| Haha, I'm certainly from your generation and feel the same. But the tech isn't going away, and it can be pretty useful, empowering, cool and democratisering. We just need to learn how to deal with the tech in a healthy way, and these bans are progress if you ask me. I think the smartphone is just too much of a slotmachine, but we are just learning about that, and learning about what to do against it. Smartphones took a whole generation by surprise, the kids, but also their parents. I received rotten.com style videos on the family email address, havging a good conversation about it with my flabbergasted father... then smartphones came. That generation grew up quickly, and differently, and the parents were just slapped in the face with it. But it's changing, we're learning. Edit: You deleted your comment, anyway, was going to answer this: Hmm, now that I look more closely indeed I'm probably >10 years older. We had our first dumbphones at around 16-17 (Ericsson GF768 at ~17). I do remember the thrill of sleeping with it next to my bed and receiving a text during the night. Magic. You sound like my generation though ;) I bet you had a hard time in between your year mates. The current generation also has people like you btw. Not many though. |