Nostalgia is not as good as it used to be. 😬 Each generation talks about the "good ole days" and how life was simpler, better; even the toys were so much simpler and more fun back then. Then technology kicked in — what's up next?

From manual to mechanical; kinetic to electronic; analog to digital; calculator to a personal computer; telephone to the Internet — "real" reality to virtual and augmented versions, human intelligence to artificial intelligence — and everything in between, and beyond.

Lately, each generation has found itself in the middle of some technological transformation. In the past 70 years, this has happened more often, and it has affected our society and personal everyday life in much more profound and significant ways.

In the 80s, many exceptional transformations took place — we could consider it the portal that brought us in direct contact with the modern digital technology age. Faster than any past transformation before, our work, family, friends, and personal lives changed in front of our own eyes and opened the way to an unstoppable and constant change. Moore's law can give an idea of the magnitude here, but it may miss the full extent of today's technological evolution.

We start the conversation today by looking back at the many electronic gadgets, our first electronic games, Walkman's, digital watches, and the first computers of our younger age. Then we try to understand what made them so unique and so magical to have captured our attention at the time; in many cases, they actually shaped our future professional lives.

Will the young generations of today look back at a smartphone the same way we look at a VHS player back then? What made that technology so unique? What makes vintage electronics and gadgets still capture our attention and the desire to bring those back into our lives even today. Maybe even more than ever.

This is where technology and life meet, but we promise that these conversations will not stop here. We do not know where they will go, but if you stay tuned, you will know when we do.

Guest(s) Diana Kelley, Limor Kessem, Chris Roberts, Cody Wamsley, and Scott Scheferman

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