I'm an early Boomer. How young am I, culturally?
1. Email: I don't FB but I don't get much email either. It's my commo path of necessity, not chat.
2. Beer: I'm not allowed that any more. Nor stronger stuff either. But I've always been a wino.
3. Newspapers: Something to read in waiting rooms. For news, I"ve got the Net and maybe NPR.
4. Cars: I live in and traverse remote areas without public transport. I need cars. And a moped.
5. Landline phones: See #4. Ain't no wireless in steep canyons. The landline supplies DSL+Net.
6. Cigarettes: I smoked cigs between ages 15-25. Now it's a very occasional good (Cuban) cigar.
7. Desktop computers: I depended on these from 1980-1995. Only big+little laptops since then.
8. Television: We still get the cable feed for movies and music, but I gave up on TV decades ago.
So I'm of mixed modernity. Or is that
schizo?
A lot of this applies to people in urban areas. Those of us outside megalopolitan anthills live with very different infrastructure and culture. I may yet move to San Francisco for awhile, to be near grandkids. My car-landline-chat-newspaper situations would change. These summaries of national trends need to be broken down by geography.
Last edited by RioRico; 04-20-2012 at 09:33 AM.