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60 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

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Tommy Baker @ Silicon Canals 1 place · today 09:15 EDT

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

In an age where children's every movement is tracked and scheduled, one grandfather reflects on how the profound boredom and complete invisibility of his 1970s childhood—those endless summer afternoons with no adult eyes watching—forged a generation in ways that may be impossible to replicate.

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