The thoughts of a Generation.

Ok, lets consider a particular generation of people, born in the late 1970's. We are not necessarily the Starwars generation, but it did have a huge influence on our lives.

So what have we seen in that time? Lets look at me, just for a second, I was born in September 1977, in the aftermath of Elvis Pressley's death, infact his very last song was at number, the best selling cars of the time were the Ford Cortina. Technology wise a computer, filled a room and had lots of tape reels to record the information. Ipods the internet and Facebook were not even thought of. Infact the Internet probably did exist, but it was for military computers to communicate.

So what did we see over the years, well the down fall of a government, and a new one coming in. Thatcher came to power during this time, and Britain was getting over action by the unions, The winter of discontent. The country was in a mess, not necessarily caused by the previous government, but they were on the receiving end of a lot of the unrest.

During these early days, Computer games have come a long way, from 2 sticks playing tennis, to the Hitech games of today.

Music has really developed during this period, and our generation has seen many differant genres, from the Disco of the late 70's through to new wave and cheese from the 1980's, which came out of Stock Aitken and Waterman factory of music.

We started off with 3 tv channels in the late 1970's, now we have literally hundreads to choose from. I can remember Channel 4's start up, with the introduction to the world of the Tube and Brookside. Feel free to comment, our generation was born in the 1970's, went to school in the 1980's and entered the real world in the 1990's. Many of our generation have had children who are well in to their schooling, We are not exactly young, but we are not old. we are the 30 somethings, Maybe we are the Britpop generation, the children of Thatcher. We are the ones who will pay for the babyboomers to play. Who knows.

All I can say on the matter is The changes I have seen in my lifetime so far have been amazing. To witness the collaspe of commuinsm, the reunification of Germany, the Liberation of east Europe from Soviet rule. The end of the cold war, which had the threat of mutually assured destruction. This has been a time for joy and a time for tears, as we have had the 1990's wars in the Balkans where atrocities were committed. Just hope future generations will learn the lessons.

We have seen atrocities committed in our own country, where several individuals blew them selfs up all in the name of a distorted idealology, which started off by the destruction of the world trade centre in New York.

in this period the world has shrunk, with Globalisation of commerce. so lets see what will happen in the next 30plus years, and just think we will all be nearing retirement, then we can moan and cause havoc. Heres to the future.