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Old 05-29-2014, 06:46 AM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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Back then, I just didn't see things in society being as bad as it is today. Like all the mass killings and a total disregard for human life, the lack of respect people have for themselves and others, the lack of compassion and empathy. People just don't care about much beyond their front yards these days, or it seem that way.
You must not have been paying attention.

Charles Whitman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Violent crime was much more common. Shootings happened all the time. Things are much more peaceful nowadays.

As for not caring what happens to others:

Murder of Kitty Genovese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody
Outside of a small circle of friends."

- Phil Ochs.

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Old 05-29-2014, 06:49 AM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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Mass killings?

More than 262 million people were killed by governments between 1900 and 1999 around the world. The 1900s was a terrible century. Most of those killings before the computer age.

And like someone posted, lone wolf killings in the USA have dramatically dropped over the years. What you see instead are sensationalizing.

However I wonder why "we" don't seem to be shocked when 80 women and children are killed by drones in the middle east operated by the USA but are upset over lone wolfs? Nuts like that happen, but less and less.
Or when the BATF and FBI murdered 82 Texans in 1993. Nobody was ever prosecuted for those mass murders.
 
Old 05-29-2014, 06:54 AM
 
Location: Myrtle Creek, Oregon
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I saw the news when carter was in office and they had cars running on sea water..I did not think we would be driving cars or have the common cold any more..
Henry Ford fell for that scam in the 1920s. It pops up every generation or so.
 
Old 05-29-2014, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Earth
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We were promised hoverboards by October 21, 2015....

Well we've got a bit over 18 months to work the bugs out, develop a marketing campaign and get clearance from the product safety group...but we're on schedule!
 
Old 05-29-2014, 09:54 AM
 
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I never would have guessed video games and iPods would be what they are now. I grew up in the 60's and 70's. I remember having the video game "Pong". Basically a big black screen that was like electronic table tennis. When we left we would set that thing up so the "ball" was going straight across the screen, back and forth. We'd come back hours later and it would still be going. The games today a light years ahead of that.

We had reel to reel tape players with big rolls of tape and 8 track players. Now I can hold a device in my hand with hundreds of songs and movies on it. What I hold in my hand now would require boxes to hold back then.
Well atlesat there is that. Video games make me feel like i am on the Holodeck from Star Trek.
 
Old 05-29-2014, 09:56 AM
 
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1998-2001 were great years, some of the most prosperous but of course when jobs were plentiful they came at a price. Now everyone is hurting becuase some of the policies implemented then.
 
Old 05-29-2014, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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I would like to know to older members on this board. Did you have any ideas what you thought the year 2000 was going to look like: For example: "I thought that by the year 2000 we would be having flying cars and jetpacks, and moon vacations by now!!!" What did you guys think about what the future was going to look like by today?
I had hoped internet forums would lead to a greater exchange of ideas and philosophies than it obviously has.
 
Old 05-29-2014, 10:22 AM
 
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I would like to know to older members on this board. Did you have any ideas what you thought the year 2000 was going to look like: For example: "I thought that by the year 2000 we would be having flying cars and jetpacks, and moon vacations by now!!!" What did you guys think about what the future was going to look like by today?
When I was a kid someone told me that Nostradamus predicted world war III would occur in the early 1990s. It scared me to death. I thought that the year 2000 would look something like one of the flashback scenes from Terminator.
 
Old 05-29-2014, 12:54 PM
 
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Default Tough putting your mind around it

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I remember going to see the movie '2001 - A Space Odyssey' in 1968 when I was 15 years old. I wondered if such a world would occur by that time. I remember thinking to myself I'd be 47 years old, which seemed shocking enough!!

In fact, life is very similar today, and no where near as different as such films predicted. Things have changed of course, and we have advanced technologically. Something like the internet wasn't in the dreams of forecasters. Same with cell phones. But people are much the same as they were back then.

But except for the alien and alien artifacts, everything you saw in "2001" was doable even back then and certainly could be accomplished today. Technology is funny. Things are invented, forgotten or ignored, then "discovered" years later. Not so much today since we live in a fish bowl.
 
Old 05-29-2014, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Victoria TX
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I remember writing to my dad in about 1965, that I thought by the time I retired (2003), we would have developed social services to the point at which nobody would need to worry much about economic security. I was right, it did happen -- except in the USA, where the ball was dropped.
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