The hardest thing to explain to younger generations about growing up in the 1960s and 1970s isn’t the lack of technology — it’s the specific quality of unsupervised time, the slow afternoons, the boredom that produced things, the freedom that came with no adult tracking your location — and most of those conditions have been correctly retired, but the people they produced are unlikely to be replicated
The Lost Art of Being Unwatched People think the hardest part of explaining the 60s and 70s is the technology. ...
