How Times Have Changed

My cousin and I used to sit around our kitchen table, listening to my Grandmother regaling her tales.

She talked about the war a lot (with tears in her eyes), about bombs dropping, and the buzz bombs. She lost four brothers in two wars. My mother remembered the red skies from burning London.
The Second World War was the war to end all wars. But man has not changed his penchant for war, and wars continue today, advanced further by AI weaponry.

My grandmother was born in 1890. She was the family beauty. She also took ten years off her age, and we all believed her. It was only later that I found her birth certificate and was astounded.

I often wonder what she would do these days if she came back to our high-tech world.
She told us about the cat whisker radios and phones. Queen Victoria was the very first person to speak on the phone. Social media has now become our norm for communication.

As a child, I played in the sunny garden with an old-fashioned gramophone, and 78 records, hours of fascination. Then records were downsized, then tapes arrived, and the next best thing were CDs. Now we search on the internet for music. Music has evolved at a fast pace and many different styles. 

The global economy has shifted towards digital currencies. I no longer read a real newspaper as I once did on a daily basis.
There are government responses to pandemics, medical technology, and telehealth now exist.
Attitudes have changed towards gender, sexuality and race.
Have advancements moved us forward or backwards in many respects? Could you live happily without technology? Do you yearn for lost freedoms? Travel was much easier in the sixties and seventies. I was a huge globetrotter, but now I find airports and some aspects of travel a hassle.

ABBA - Money, Money, Money

The Byrds - "The Times They Are A Changin'"

Moccasin Creek - Porch Honky

What were the biggest changes in your life? What do you remember changing?

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Lian & Kieran