The man in the picture is 26 above. With his close-cropped hair at the front and a long mat at the back of his head he has a striking appearance. Now at least – in the eighties he was one noticed. But he does it like it’s 1986.
Blair McMillan lives with his family in the town of Guelph, Canada:
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McMillan and his family do not use Google maps to find the way, but a paper map. Cell phones, internet, computers, expensive coffee machines and digital television are gone out the door. Mat, mustache, baseball jersey and other trendy fashion items from the eighties are just brought home. For a year, until April 2014, playing Blair McMillan, his girlfriend and two children Morgan McMillan that 1986.
They now play outside instead of inside the computer. Google has been replaced by a vintage encyclopedia. Online banking is replaced by standing in line at the bank. Instagrammen is replaced by real film roll with atmosphere, and series are replaced by books.
The McMillans now read more. Still of The Toronto Sun
In the time machine
Blair McMillan devised the experiment when he became alarmed by the behavior of his children, and Trey Denton 2 of 5. His eldest son wanted to play especially on the iPad, weather not interest him. So McMillan wanted to see how it would be without all the gadgets. Educate He chose the year 1986, in which he and his girlfriend were born. So his children would grow up just like him at the time.
Blair and his sons now carry a mat – “professional from the front, from behind festive,” said McMillan there joking about – to make the experience as vividly as possible. People who come into the house, also must surrender all their devices.
The Toronto Sun made a report about the family, which you can see here.
Is that really so difficult?
Is it really that hard, giving up all those things which we are so accustomed to? Or is it all that bad if the mobile phone in the trash is gone?
still only call the landline phone at the McMillans. Still of The Toronto Sun
McMillans did not immediately easy. Facebook delete Morgan fell hard, Blair misses the music of his favorite bands, he has not been able to find. Analog audio tapes on And then the phone: the want of it felt at first as a kind of phantom pain. Blair still felt his phone vibrate in his pocket while that was days away.
Now he thinks it’s nice to sometimes be inaccessible. In order to have direct contact with people rather than through a device. The children now finally play out. In the morning the family radio listening now, they have breakfast together, the children play in the backyard with the dog.
Does it make sense?
But their behavior has been calling its toll. Blair lost a business partner because he wanted to work in an old fashioned way. Necessarily with him He could agree with him or faxes, but mail, texting, cell phone use – could not. And find some place an unnecessary delay.
For is it necessary? All this nostalgia, the idea that the time was better when children came home just holes in the pants outdoor games and scabs on their knees from falling? Was it better? And even if that were so, does it make sense to even pretend that time to get back? Give your opinion below in the comments.
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