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The Bridge Generation: The Generation That Saw Everything Change
The Generation That Saw Everything Change.
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We are the bridge people, the translators between worlds that feel centuries apart but are separated by mere decades.
We remember when phones had cords and privacy was assumed, when libraries were temples of knowledge, and social media was just science fiction.
In my grandfather's house, the telephone was fixed on the wall.
The Last of the Analog Kids
Picture this: You’re eight years old, carefully rewinding a VHS tape because you know the next person will be annoyed if you don’t.
Fast forward twenty years, and you’re explaining to your child why we used to have to “rewind” things, while they stream any movie ever made with a voice command.
We learned handwriting in school, convinced it would be essential for life. We memorized phone numbers, dozens of them, stored in the biological hard drive of our minds.
We knew which friends were home by whether their bikes were in the driveway.
