I was a teenager in the 90s, so my brain would surely love it, but I am still in the "make it like this yourself now, because that's what I am doing" camp.

I like having a huge OLED TV and a Jellyfin server running on a PC with several processor cores, TBs of storage, GBs of RAM, and MBs of processor cache. I like that I can GPS navigate, take a video, text my family, or look up any information on earth on a whim thanks to the phone in my pocket.

But I also actively avoid a lot of my technology for much of the day. When I am home, I often don't have my phone on me and I spend a lot of time working on things outside. It's not unlike playing in the creek or in the woods in the 90s.

We all know that the key is often moderation with these things. Simple sayings like that often have profound truth behind them, after all. The problem is that some of the richest people and richest corporations on the planet have poured an unfathomable amount of resources into turning our technological advancements into addictive products designed to engage and retain attention.

You can have the same kind of existence, but now you have to intentionally pursue it and put effort into it. You can't just passively exist in that world like we remember doing.