No. It just changed things. Part of the problem with this article is it assumes the way things worked for the generations that had cars but not the internet/ cellphones is the right way. Ignoring the fact that the how those generations grew up was vastly different than pre-car generations. Some things are better, some things are worse. Less teen sex and drugs is definitely better. Less independence is really just reverting to how things were before cars and the nuclear family. Less hanging out is again reverting to life before cars. More depression could just be a byproduct of how much more we whine as a society and have nothing to do with smartphones.
Each generation grows up in a different world. And as tech advances speed up the differences become more dramatic. And they grow up adjusted for their world. Those who grew up in a different world like to assume it’s worse, but that’s because we studiously forget our parents thought the same thing. It’s different.
Yup.
We endured things no one else had seen as did those before and after us.
Jesus! Stu we went through DISCO!