I wrote something like this last year https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2017/2/13/i-miss-the-20th-century https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2017/2

I wrote something like this last year https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2017/2/13/i-miss-the-20th-century https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2017/2/13/i-miss-th... I miss the face to face interactions, I miss community, I miss boredom and a considerably simpler life. At the same time though I love that I have friends all over the world, many of which I've never met, but know just as well as local friends. I love that I can go on YouTube and see all sorts of amazing and interesting things. I love that I can share and discuss ideas with strangers on BBS/forums/sites like HN and Reddit. I love that an an adapter from Automatic tells my phone data from my car that then gets pushed to various places via IFTTT so that I can create a record of all of my driving and vehicle diagnostic alerts for potential use in the future. As I said in my blog post I have my foot in both worlds, being born in the mid 80's I was there for the birth of the modern internet and still had several years of my life where I didn't even know the internet existed. Now the internet is effectively an augmentation to my own person.