Nothing stays the same
I have been thinking about how much change I have seen in my lifetime. It's only when I look back that I can appreciate the differences between my life now and the way things were almost 70 or 60, 50, 40 years ago. Not in terms of my personal life of course but in the way life is lived. I'm thinking here mainly about changes in communication technology. My son made me start these musings when he asked when I had first had a colour television. I replied that it was in the early 1970's, maybe 1973. He was surprised that I had grown up watching black and white television : though in fairness there were colour films in the cinema. Looking back on a TV series from the 60's , say ' The man from Uncle', do we visualise it in black and white? I guess so. I think I do see Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuriakin up to their antics in monotones. The situation may be complicated however by seeing repeats of the colour version from the U.S in recent years. Becaus...