Times have certainly changed.
Have an older astrologist friend, she bemoans that in the old days you got out the star books and did a reading based on the birthday, time and location, it would take a few hours but you would slowly see the “personality” of the people coming into focus. Now she says there is software and you get the same results but it takes 30 seconds and there is no joy in it.
I think that is what is so missing in our society, there is so little craft-work or hobbies anymore to give simple happiness.
Very true. As a boy, I would build models, work on my stamp collection, listen to police scanners or tackle thousand plus piece jigsaw puzzles with my sister. As a young adult, I got into electronics and short wave radio. I would spend countless hours dx'ing with my Grundig and picking up stations from around the world.
All of that has been mostly lost in the computer age.