Specifically, Greg wants to experience life in a 19th-century one-room schoolhouse. He envisions a time with no:
* Computers or internet: He yearns for a time when schoolwork was done with pen and paper, and communication relied on letters.
* Mobile phones or social media: He desires a world where the only way to connect was through face-to-face interactions.
* Instant gratification: He fantasizes about a slower pace of life where things were simpler and less chaotic.
He believes this lifestyle would be more challenging but ultimately more rewarding and fulfilling. He yearns for the sense of community and the lack of distractions that he believes existed in those times.
While Greg doesn't specifically envision a world *without* these things, he does imagine a world *before* they existed, a world where life was different and, in his mind, perhaps better.