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Technically was actually a lot less advanced even as late as the mid-90s. I was only born in 1990 yet I remember when cell phones were mostly used by upper class people, many TVs still had rabbit ears, the Internet was for "nerds", most people didn't have their own computer at home and people still wrote letters.
Maybe people just had too high expectations. I mean there's no way we could have had colonies on Mars or even a mass produced hoverboard by 2015. Smartphones aren't nearly as impressive as those things, but they're still vastly beyond what we had even in the 90s. Sure there were palm pilots but they were essentially glorified calculators.
No, I don't think at all our lives resemble those of 90s let alone the 80s
but I think very little has changed since the year 2000, I really feel like I'm trapped in the early 2000s as for the political/technological/fashion mood
if one compare say 1964 to 1970 or 1986 to 1992 a lot of stuff changed
if one compare 2004 to 2014 what has really changed?
the last music breakthrou?grunge, early 90s
the last technological inventions?virtual reality, mobile phones and internet, both mid 1990s
after that nothing really changed, we have smarter mobile devices, we chat, gossip (and cheat...) much more, virtual reality is dead, someone are trying to revive it with the Oculis Rift but it's hard, internet well, it's just deeper and faster but the concept hasn't changed since 1995
I think today technology has gotten nerdy, geeky and boring if compared to that once made us dream of a visionary future
the sad reality is today it's speculative finance who rule the world, not scientists or scientific enterprises, and speculators don't give a fig about future, they just want money as soon as possible, they don't dream, they're narrow-minded in that sense.
Notice how all changes in daily life that are mentioned here, are all technological. I think I understand what the OP means. Some subtle things haven't really changed at all since 1985 or so. At least here in America. Infrastructure is actually worse now than it was then. Many of the mannerisms have not changed. Commercialization of everything is as rampant as it was then, if not more. People still listen to the radio, which hasn't changed format since the early 90s. There's still old stuff and old technology everywhere, in every home and building. There are still tens of thousands of 80s and 90s cars on the roads, being driven every day. The "greed is good" mentality is stronger than ever before, as is Materialism. We've basically had one very long presidency since 1980, with the occasional personality change - that's it. As someone else already mentioned, there have been no breakthroughs in music since the 90s. There's very little originality in movies and music, which has been the case for a couple of decades now. Everything is a rehash. Fashion - same thing. New cars are currently the largest and heaviest since the 1970s, on average. Drug abuse, especially among youth, has been increasing once again. And let's not forget, the extreme obsession with new technologies and trying to predict the future has been with us for decades.
I watch a video like this one, and it becomes even more obvious to me how little has really changed (outside of technology). This freeway is exactly the same now as it was then in 1988. Many of those cars are still being driven daily. I could go for a drive right now, and it would feel the same as in this video:
This thread is clear example of how far we've come. We have posters from Idaho, Des Moines, Sydney, Italy, Arizona, New York, Ohio, California, etc, etc., engaging in one big group conversation, a conversation which literally anyone on Earth can join in at any given time provided they have Internet access. Try pulling that off in 1986.
http://youtu.be/WikTS8BxFgMHere is a music video from 17 years ago......Hip hop/R&B hasn't changed drastically as let's say 1981 to 1998....as a kid who grew up in the 90s/2000s. Very little has changed. The technology we have is the SAME. Except just more enchanted....I mean a MP3 player is not an iPod etc....we had Internet and computers in every class....we had play stations and gaming systems too...it feels the same as the 90s to me though...
There is no denying that there is NOT a huge difference from 1998 as compared as the difference from 98 to 81 by looking at the style of the music video and the technology used....I think the 90s was the true start of the 21st century
I would like to know, why is it that many of our daily lives still feel like the 1980s or 1990s at most? I have expected the 2010s would have jetpacks, flying cars, futuristic robots, food pills, moon vacations, cure for cancer, 3D holograms, and so on by now. Yet we still seem like we are in the 80s or 90s with our level of technology? Why is that? When will we hope to see those technologies like the futurist had promised us?
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Originally Posted by StAcKhOuSe
we are in the future. its just that the last generation had higher expectations than what the outcome churned out. we do have smartphones that do just about everything except pleasure you sexually
Did phones take pictures then? NWere phones also mapping systems? Were free picture phones imaginable? Was the instantaneous transport of huge and beautiful documents imaginable or was Fedex the order of the day?
I was thinking that if I look carefully at say 10 years ago there are indeed something new or something else no longer in
10 years ago women and girls used to show their belly button, now it's much rarer
in the early 2000s none still show their slips by keeping low their pants
since 2012 circa women started to wear in public saggy (extralarge in the ass area) suits/pijamas
it's just a couple of years that crest and mohican haircut have became mainstream
just a few more years that designing the sides of the hair have became mainstream, especially among african-americans
I would like to know, why is it that many of our daily lives still feel like the 1980s or 1990s at most? I have expected the 2010s would have jetpacks, flying cars, futuristic robots, food pills, moon vacations, cure for cancer, 3D holograms, and so on by now. Yet we still seem like we are in the 80s or 90s with our level of technology? Why is that? When will we hope to see those technologies like the futurist had promised us?
Because like Hitler's miracle weapons few come true. I mean I remember that we were supposed to have moving sidewalks by 1970.
See? Nobody here can name major changes from the 1980s to now, without mentioning technology. That speaks for itself, really.
And regarding all of this "we're in the future" crap - we've been in what most people would call "the future" since the 1950s. We're not in the future any more now than we were in 1969. "But Temeku, what about all of the revolutionary technology that has come since then, you dumb poopienose?" - And to that I would say, "Yet our species continues to circle the drain and take this once-pristine planet down with us, with our Mega-Malls, oversized gas guzzlers, urban sprawl, electric scooters, internet pornography, spam, sneakers with little wheels under the heels, octomoms, reality TV shows, landfills, 'smart' phones that make subservient simpletons become dependent on them for all aspects of daily life, Krispy Kreme drive-thrus, uber-Materialism, consumerism-based economies, Big Mac's, genetically modified foods, toxic-laden plastic toys from China, and all of the other impressive things we've done down here on Earth." Not to mention, that according to the Brookings Institute - Americans are no happier now than they were in 1955. In fact, life satisfaction among Americans has slightly decreased since then. So much for all of that 'technology and consumerism is making us happier' BS.
Literally speaking, we'll never be in the future. That's why it's called the future - because it hasn't happened yet. We'll always be in the present. The future doesn't actually exist, as The Beatles would say "It's all in the mind". But a lot of people don't like that. So they lie to themselves, they talk about new technologies with extreme enthusiasm, obsession and over-excitement, and preach about all of this futurist BS - and it's always used in some self-serving way.
So I'd write off all of the technology butt-kissing you see in this thread and in real life. People say those things as a way of gently stroking themselves, and their ego. Our species is barely out of the jungle.
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There have been significant social changes since the 1950s that don't involve technology. The US has a black president, for chrissakes,--an unthinkable notion in the 80s, much less the 1950s.
Tired rants against our consumerist culture aside (ooh, Internet porn!) the world as a whole is significantly less violent today than it was in the 50s. These are clear, positive changes no matter how you slice it:
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