The Case for Technological Foot-Dragging - Public Discourse
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I was due to be a Gen X-er. By waiting a week past my due date, I not only lost my father his 1980 tax deduction but also became a Millennial. Not that being born in the first few days of a sociologically designated generation (or claiming a cool label like “Cusper” or “Xennial”) is really that much of a distinction. But I have come to realize that entering one’s generational cohort at the beginning of an arbitrary twenty-year span means not being quite so wholly subsumed in the zeitgeist as are one’s slightly younger peers.
Add to that a family whose scant middle-class means and slight Luddite tendencies meant that we were never technological early adopters. Multiply that by a choice to homeschool when such an election still produced a marked cultural wince. Subtract any culturally defiant choices such as those of my friends who did not even own a television. It totals a childhood not outside the mainstream culture—certainly not paddling against it—but holding water as the cultural drift moved us all along.
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