Title: Life in the 90's | America Magazine
Headings: Life in the 90's
Life in the 90's
Content: In my defense, all I can say is that Life in the 90’s sure did go by quickly. The poor 90’s! They seem to have escaped reflection, what with millennium madness and centenary wrap-ups. I’m old enough to have explained two previous decades, the 80’s and 70’s, to no-doubt enraptured audiences. But this time around, nobody seems to be interested in what the last decade meant. Maybe, like the television series that helped define its ethos, the decade was about nothing. That probably would be the view of more than a few postmodernists—a term that came into somewhat common usage in the 90’s. But surely great changes took place over the last 10 years, not the least of which was that liberal arts types like myself now use words like "modem" with at least some understanding of what we’re talking about. So, what about life in the 90’s, anyway? We certainly became more aware of our differences over the last 10 years, and not simply the division (large though it is) between the technologists and the non-technologists.