There was no Internet but there were Comic Books and Encyclopedia

    I grew up in the 1970s and the 1980s. The Internet was thoroughly on the way, but it would not really be a part of everyday life for most of us until I was done with college in the middle 1990s.

    We had video games, starting with the ones in gas stations and restaurants and arcades, but then we had the Atari and other home game systems. Coleco? A few others that my friends had, the names are escaping me... Nintendo! And another one.

    But the comics were a big part of the visual stimulus or input that the brain craved, as well as control over the starting, stopping, and pausing the storylines or narratives that we could not with regular television or movies. The encyclopedia that we purchased, plus others in the library also offered an array of knowledge and research.

    We live in a much different world now. Streaming and webpages and everything, seemingly, at our fingertips.

    Our thinking, acting, operating, is so much more open. But does that act against our imaginations and creativity sometimes?

    Perhaps.