I've always wanted to write an essay about technology and its effect on everyday life. Instead, I'll list it. These are things that I would tell my 1985 self, if I had, ya know, a time machine.

• If it's written or printed, it's prolly available on the web.
• If it was filmed, I'm betting you can find it on YouTube right now.
• I have in my possession every: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Atari 8 Bit, Intelivision, Colecovision, NES, Genesis, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast games ever made. I can even play most of them on a flash cart on the original console.
• The actual code of almost every arcade game ever made is on my hard drive. ACTUAL CODE, not a reasonable facsimile of. EXACT. In other word i can play, bit for bit any arcade game of my youth with very few exceptions.
• Archive dot org. First of all these kind souls need to be recognized for being the internet "Good Guys" go get lost in their site for a couple hours. True pioneers of the web.
• When going to concerts back in the day camera's were a no-no. If you were found photographing the show, you were literally kicked outta the arena. So concert video's were rare. Hell just regular videos of your favorite band usually involved sitting the 2 hours of bad MTV hoping the video you want to see is in rotation. Today, your favorite band played a show LAST NIGHT at the EnormoDome. When you get to work that morning, head over to youtube and watch one of many Hi Def shots of the show. This is a good. Bad though, the see of smartphone being held up instead of flaming lighters. Free Bird indeed....