Were you born at the right time?

I was born in the mid-fifties just after food rationing ended in the UK. I was a teenager in the late sixties and early seventies with miniskirts, the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, and all the other great bands of the era. We were there when Black Sabbath revolutionised rock. Computers were just starting to be something that ordinary people might have access to with a bit of effort. Digital electronics and microprocessors were just about to become mainstream. I grew up in a time of great optimism even though there were hiccups like the Oil Crisis, the miners' strike, the Falklands war, the first Iraq War.

I don't think I would swap the second half of the twentieth century for any other period in history. And despite the challenges of the last twenty years a lot of people are doing better now than at any time in recorded history