Which Is Better, Now Or Four Decades Ago.

Which Is Better, Now Or Four Decades Ago

By Rob Corley

The changes that have taken place in just one generation are almost unbelievable this is the topic of year 7 children of Thomlinson middle school, Rothbury; in order to carry out this investigation they interviewed their parents and each other.

One of the biggest changes is the improvement in technology, so much has changed and so have the people today in comparison with people four decades ago. While we have mobile phones and sky TV they did not even have AC (alternating current) electricity so even if they had things like TVs and automatic washing machines they would not have the right current to run them.

To have a car in the generation before us was not unusual but not all people had one whereas almost everyone now has one, also cars then were cold and inefficient, Mr. Corley claims he remembers him mum and dad wore gloves to drive the car.

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Entertainment has improved a lot since then, this is mainly dew to the improvement in technology over the time. Miss. Hessey said, “What they did then was boring” while Mrs. Corley said, “I lead a simple life and did not have the need for the things that children have today.” Entertainment like toy solders and air-fix modules are replaced by more modern things like games consoles and computers, and do not find the need for things like these any more for they find more interest in things like mobile phones, computers and music CDs, mobile phones were not even thought of in four decades ago, it was very rare even to just have phone in the house Mrs. Hoil said, “ we were the only people in the village to have our very own phone.

The communities we live in now are generally a lot bigger, more isolated and more people worked for large companies whereas then there were much less big companies, so in most cases you were your own boss.

Another aspect is inflation and population growth, money has increased by almost ten times the amount in not a very long time, if you go and buy a CD now it would cost you on average around fifteen to twenty pounds and one generation ago it would cost about two or three pounds so you can see the difference. Population has rapidly increased in this country in fact it has doubled since 1950 from 16 million to 32 million this is mainly because the medical care has improved and also hygiene within the home.

As you can see so much has changed over this period of time from our life styles to technology to population growth and money increase well the two cases still remains because most of the parents say that it has not changed for the better and they would not like to be in the childhood of today and the children say it would be a boring and uncomfortable lifestyle to live.