One of the biggest ones for me would have to be music. It seems as time goes on more and more "music" is little more than processed garbage manufactured by large corporations with video clips being nothing more than commercials for said products. There's always been plenty of bad music, but bad music I can happily ignore whereas this processed garbage annoys me. Unfortunately the longer this trend continues the more it's accepted,.. somewhat a ripple effect, to a point where a good portion of people these days not only accept it, but rather embrace it.
True, but also untrue. The usual pop music biz really got worse. The wentdown of music television is symptomatic. Also the mp3 thing wasn't helpful to the mass market in a sense of keeping the album thing alive and to value music. But on the other hand there is plenty of good music still today, new bands have now the opportunity to reach a worldwide audience thanks to the internet w/o havig a major label backing them up.
What really changed is that 15 -20 years ago I could just go to the record shop and the guys there had good proposals, it was fun to talk with them and even the charts were often inspiring. Today most record shops are closed.
Also MTV, Viva (in Europe/Germany) and the radio shows were really inspiring. Today you need to seek for good music for yourself, but it is still there. And I am sure it will stay, because there are pretty many ppl out there (even youngers) who actually still value good music. The mass market has been always full of junk.
All in all the 90ies were a great time. Technology took off, the cold war was over and new threats were rather little. All were eagerly waiting for the future (Y2k). And then it came...
But that's life, time goes on, world changes and while diffrent to the 90ies (and other times before) I enjoy life today as much as back then.
