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So Much Change In These Last 70 Years
Some changes are better, making life easier and amazing. Others are worse, making life harder.
I was born in the late 50s, and I’ll soon be 70. When I look back over these past seven decades, I first thought to write about the things I missed. Over several months, the scope of my interest and research widened considerably. Rather than classify my points by decade, it made more sense to outline the article series in a very different and more personal way…
I wrote these over the autumn months of 2023 and self-published them in the first week of 2024. I decided to revive them for 2025 in this story.
Part 1 of 7 — What I miss most is that we knew that truth existed and didn’t change based on your preference or opinion.
Part 2 of 7 — Inventions have made our housework SO easy. Because of my vision impairment, my favourite improvement is a technology that makes more reading material available and accessible than I ever imagined possible when I was first old enough to read. I can do…