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.
Ah yes, but every time–past, present, and future–is fated to be someone’s good old days. Every change comes with positives and negatives. We tend to remember more positives from the past while focusing on the negatives of the present.