When bigger tech companies were cool.
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Lead poisoning. I know, I know, there are a ton of other hazards we're exposing ourselves to. We will have our reckoning with things like plastic, but at least lead is something we're aware of and dealing with.
Along those same lines, ozone layer destroying products.
We might be dealing with lead in some places, but it's still an ongoing issue. This year alone, there have been issues with applesauce, cinnamon, and other food products being contaminated with lead. Towns in the US, like Flint Michigan, still have endless problems related to it.
It's a long road before it'll be dealt with, so 2020 kids are definitely going to experience lead poisoning.
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2019
Snow days. Instead it's now "pull out your laptops to get on zoom. I once was off an entire week or so bc of a massive snowstorm. Downside, the sewer line underneath our apartment burst and we couldn't stay home that entire week.
Working in coal mines. Well, actually, nevermind...
That feeling of logging on to limewire or thepiratebay or some random sketchy hacker BBS or irc chat.
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A time when AI wasnβt involved with everything.
Remember that time when humans had to do everything, and if there werenβt enough people around to do it, then nobody do it.
My previous answer to this question was about buying a phone instead of renting from the phone company. I realized that something today's children may never experience is the government actually enforcing antitrust law, and in the bigger picture, the feeling of trust that the government is there to look out for us and will do the right thing.
(Yeah, that trust was sometimes misplaced, but it existed. We also used to believe that the violators of that trust would be held accountable.)
getting lost
MapQuest printouts.
CONNECT 41333/ARQ/V90
The World Trade Center
Privacy.
Ownership. (not quasi ownership like 'buying' a HP inkjet printer)
being a gleek
Not having to worry about AI generated pictures of you, especially any of pornographic nature. Girls are already having to suffer through this shit
Speaking of which, they'll never know what "finite porn" is.
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