Amelia Lester

And who knows what life could have been like.

I know.

But all that is so exciting, right?

But the thing that's interesting to me about this is the faux-stalgia of it.

Because...

People have always been nostalgic.

I remember when I was a little kid, I'd ask my mom, do you remember the first time you saw a TV?

Like my grandparents, what was the world like without a TV?

Like you couldn't possibly imagine it.

I never once wanted to live in that world.

I wasn't interested in living in a world without TV.

That was not a thing.

Whereas young people are interested in what it was like to live in a world without phones.

And

have a certain amount of yearning for it even as much as they can't bear the idea of not being able to order food immediately like my daughter only wants to take pictures on her with her and her friends on a digital camera not on a phone it's something about the way it looks it's something about that slightly imperfect vibe that they want and I find that really interesting because they've never known this time and I mean you guys haven't known this time as adults and

And yet it feels so appealing.

It's not actually nostalgia.

It's like an imagined world.

It's like yearning for a horse and carriage instead of a car.

Also you find out who someone is immediately that colours all your judgement about them, whereas in a pre-instant research world you had to get to know them first.