Your post took me back to a warm place and time of my life. I fondly remember getting a Walkman in he sixth grade and being able to listen to my own tapes in the car on those painful 55 MPH road trips.
How far our country has come. . . and sadly GONE since those days.
I would trade all of the technology if it would reverse the police state that has come of it.
The real scary thin is thinking about the exponential nature of technology, and where we might be 5 or ten years from now.
Remember when people said that computers could never replace the human brain? Well some still say that. They are correct. But they are wrong.
Frightening to what extent the nebulous internet/Google/antisocial media sites have become the repository of human knowledge, and are then used as substitutes for human memory, discernment, and intellect.
Many people are choosing to trust what is displayed from a gadget in the hand instead of thinking and using proper reasoning skills, or even plain old intuition and instincts.
It’s like Clark Griswold asking for directions in the ghetto.