Remember the 80s?
Building on the social progress of the sixties and the many innovations rooted in the seventies (such as the personal computer, the cellular phone, and the Internet), the eighties was a hopeful decade. It saw the end of the cold war, the birth of a new environmental consciousness, and positive progress in both science and art. However, many initiatives and innovations which developed in a promising manner in the eighties have failed to live up to their expectations. Indeed, the mood has shifted from hopeful to cynical, from possibility to pessimism, from spiritual to material. Thankfully, there are signs of a turnaround.
Read the rest of this page »