How has technology improved in your life? (70's, years, government)
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For example: I sometimes hear stories of great grandparents who have come to the west in covered wagons to live to see the moon landing. How has technology changed and improved in your life time?
The big ones are the microwave in that it speed up warming food up and some limited kitchen tasks and the amount\types of frozen foods has greatly increased. Entertainment options also exploded from when I was a kid and the VCR was just catching on.
Other things are more complex. The computer has hurt low skilled workers and the days when ability to type or sort paper work could get you a job are over. The computer and cell phone give unimagined ability to communicate but still that is a mixed bag sometimes.
I can drive a stylin' Muscle Car with 400 HP, get 25 MPGs and not suffer breakdowns every month.
Not my Challengers BTW, but I do drive one.
Also, I get to jump online and add to random internet posts like this one and talk to people from all over the world every day. Imagine what the phone bill would have been to do that in the 70's!
Not much really. I'm 45 and don't think technology has advanced as significantly as someone who traveled west on a covered wagon and lived to see a moon landing. There were computers when I was young. Personal computers when I was a young teenager. We had calculators (simplified computer)before that. Internet forums are just letter writing with a quicker response. Internet video and music are just a more convenient TV and radio. Microwave ovens came along when I was about 10, but it wasn't a big deal...still used the regular or toaster oven for a lot of things that didn't cook well in the microwave.
As a kid, I saw people driving to market on Saturday in a horse-drawn wagon...and I am 65. My first TV was purchased in 1954, had 2 channels. Now I can watch a myriad of TV and movie channels on my phone. As a kid, there was a ACI-if book about a society where everyone had a phone that acted as their banking, etc. That is where we are at.
Yet the faster we advance, we have "liberals" who want to oppose the technology. One Dem politician recently said that the Internet was making it much harder to govern as people can organize quicker, get dissenting opinions out quicker, find out information the government doesn't want out.
I just ate some microwaved bacon. When I was growing up no one had I pods or I pads or cell phones or personal computers or GPS units, etc. When you wrote a paper for school you actually had to go to the library, flip through the card catalogue, and then actually look at a book.
Prior to the personal computer, libraries had "microfiche" and "microfilm" which were basically miniature photographic sheets or film of magazines and newspapers.
Not much different from using a computer really, just took more time. Probably better because you didn't have as much garbage to sift through to find something credible.
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