>End of the Cold War pre-9/11 >People were extremely optimistic about the future >Job market was incredible >Housing was still affordable >Music was kino >Race relations weren't damaged yet
Mid 90s till the dot com burst was the best time to be alive in America
>Technology is quaint and not a crux, you enjoy your gameboys and tamagotchis >internet cafes as a means to connect without being a social outcast >Will Smith was releasing number one movies at the box office
In the US, the 1990s only had minor armed conflicts, and the recession was nowhere near as culturally damaging as 2008. From the 1920s to 2020s there was always a major crisis either in your face (hyperinflation, great depression) or hanging over your head (cold war, war on terror). Except the 90s, unless you lived in a bad neighborhood. There was the LA riots and a couple terror attacks, but none of it shook the mood of the country
Wouldn't the Matrix be biased towards that era? >oh it was the year I was born, my masters were so smart enough to make me therefore their times were surely the best there were. I'll make a simulation of that era and slave the moron child's of my fathers in it
No the Matrix was set right before (a generation or two) humanity let machines do the thinking for them. Computers in the 90s were nowhere near AGI, and arguably still aren't.
>End of the Cold War pre-9/11 >People were extremely optimistic about the future >Job market was incredible >Housing was still affordable >Music was kino >Race relations weren't damaged yet
Mid 90s till the dot com burst was the best time to be alive in America
I think it's like how the Renaissance might be viewed in hindsight by a post-Industrial society as being the pivotal moment where the ball got rolling. AI didn't exist yet in the 1990s but the trajectory of technology was apparent and there were all sorts of reasons to be optimistic. It was the earliest the machines could go while still making a society that resembles the one they conquered.
At the time? no.
Currently? Yes.
Sure seems like it
Honestly yes. Ironic
>End of the Cold War pre-9/11
>People were extremely optimistic about the future
>Job market was incredible
>Housing was still affordable
>Music was kino
>Race relations weren't damaged yet
Mid 90s till the dot com burst was the best time to be alive in America
>Technology is quaint and not a crux, you enjoy your gameboys and tamagotchis
>internet cafes as a means to connect without being a social outcast
>Will Smith was releasing number one movies at the box office
truly, we were spoiled
Absolutely. I had this thought a few months before the movie came out. "It's only going to get worse from here."
It seems nice, they even had spongebob
In the USA, the 1990s was the most stable decade in at least a century
Not really, it started with a recession and ended with one.
Crime massively plummeted, but overall crime rates were still higher than today's
Be real, the 2000s were better than the 70s and 80s by every metric as long as you didn't watch CNN
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In the US, the 1990s only had minor armed conflicts, and the recession was nowhere near as culturally damaging as 2008. From the 1920s to 2020s there was always a major crisis either in your face (hyperinflation, great depression) or hanging over your head (cold war, war on terror). Except the 90s, unless you lived in a bad neighborhood. There was the LA riots and a couple terror attacks, but none of it shook the mood of the country
Crime rates hit a historic high in 1992. There were the LA riots, which had 3x the body count that all of the combined BLM riots did.
Then WTC bombing of 93 and a string of right-wing terror attacks and shootouts (OKC bombing, Waco, Ruby Ridge etc). They all badly shook the country
From 1997 onward it was pretty golden
>right-wing terror attacks and shootouts (OKC bombing, Waco, Ruby Ridge etc)
have a nice day you fricking wienersucking fed glowie frick
goddamn traitorous scum like you shouldn't even be called American
The Wachowskis were so dedicated to this they even destroyed their own lives to mirror and mock the degeneration of humanity
Those brothers were true artists, may they rest in peace
They were programmed to think that by the humans who built the matrix and instructed them to take care of the pods
We have to go back. At this point I would let AI Matrix me to do so.
Wouldn't the Matrix be biased towards that era?
>oh it was the year I was born, my masters were so smart enough to make me therefore their times were surely the best there were. I'll make a simulation of that era and slave the moron child's of my fathers in it
I.E the matrix is a nostalgia millenialgay
No the Matrix was set right before (a generation or two) humanity let machines do the thinking for them. Computers in the 90s were nowhere near AGI, and arguably still aren't.
It was the end of history. Until it wasn't.
I think it's like how the Renaissance might be viewed in hindsight by a post-Industrial society as being the pivotal moment where the ball got rolling. AI didn't exist yet in the 1990s but the trajectory of technology was apparent and there were all sorts of reasons to be optimistic. It was the earliest the machines could go while still making a society that resembles the one they conquered.
Yes. ‘75-‘07 was the peak of human civilization. 9/11 (and the subsequent reaction) was when things started going to shit.
Yes.
2009 was
Yep
probably
it wasn't the peak it was a time th3e human brain would accept. miserable but still some hope
the current times have little hope,
I miss Blockbuster.