Seventy-seven percent of middle-age Americans (35-54 years old) say they want to return to a time before society was “plugged in,” meaning a time before there was widespread internet and cell phone usage. As told by a new Harris Poll (via Fast Company), 63% of younger folks (18-34 years old) were also keen on returning to a pre-plugged-in world, despite that being a world they largely never had a chance to occupy.
I’m just thinking about going to the movie rental place and trying to pick something to watch. The stakes were way higher back then.
Oh, I remember this from my childhood. Actually it was a very special feeling - physically getting a VHS with a movie, watching it and then returning it.
There’s such a word - ergonomics. This has sunk very low in our days. Maybe the lowest since WWII (well, I think I’ve read somewhere that WWII was what made industrial engineers realize that interfaces should be intuitively understandable).