Technology changes. People don’t. People have remained pretty much the same since early recorded history. The technology and the speed and way at which things get done may change - but human nature is human nature. This photo of newspaper headlines was posted in the street-corner window of a newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The entire series of photos may be viewed here.

In case you don’t remember, when we were teenagers and in our 20’s we too thought our generation was the greatest, most likely to save or change the world and that the future looked brighter because we were in it. Then we got old and we look at the next generation and think and sound more like our parents than we’re comfortable admitting. Look around and you’ll see a lot of “new” inventions, but they’re really just new technology for getting the same things done. Computers and the internet help us do what we’ve always done - communicate, coordinate, work together, organize, express, share, talk - only in more advanced, simpler and faster ways. Like I said - human nature remains the same. Technology changes. When you remember that, nothing seems quite so intimidating or out of reach.