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I feel like I was one of the last lucky ones. I was born in 93 but didn't have access to the internet until 2006, not out of poverty (we're actually a pretty wealthy family), just out of a lack of need. I would spent my childhood years out playing with friends in the street, kicking footballs around, pushing people in trolleys and generally fucking about. From the age of 10 I would cycle or take the public bus to school in London. I didn't have a mobile phone until I was 12 and even then it was a Motorola thing only good for phoning home. It was like in this last bastion of old fashioned, utopian childhood that has long since vanished. I don't think it was even really still around by the time I managed to experience it, since I was in a posh ghetto. Now kids can't even walk to school without a fear of being kidnapped or having acid flung in their faces.
The generation below us is stunted, craven and destroyed. At the same time, it is exactly that sort of loss of identity that breeds a comeback. It happened after World War 1, and it'll happen again. Already people are turning towards digital detoxing and trying to regulate things.
