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To: Age of Reason
My grandfather was born before Custer's last stand, and lived long enough to see men orbit the moon.

Add in a couple of world wars, the atomic age, electrification, radio, television, automobiles, lasers, aircraft, jet engines, computers, etc. etc. etc. and I just hope I can deal with the technological and other changes I witness in the remainder of my life as gracefully (when being graceful is appropriate). (8^D)

49 posted on 10/19/2012 1:02:18 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I'm already more than half as old as my grandfather was when he died, yet everyday life has not changed that much since I was born as compared to how it must have changed for my grandfather at my age.

After all, when I was very little, we had automobiles, airlines, radio, television, electricity, refrigerators, air conditioners, etc.

In your average neighborhood and home you pretty much have all the same things, or things that look similar.

For example, although we now have microwave ovens, they are still a box you cook things in, similar to the toaster oven of decades ago.

Our TV’s are bigger and recently went high-def, but they still fill the same role of the older CRT TV boxes.

The appearance of everyday life hasn't changed that much over my lifetime, as compared to the changes my grandfather must have witnessed.

What he witnessed was likely similar to the changes witnessed by people now in Third World countries who thirty or forty years ago were walking behind water buffalo plowing fields, but today are answering technical support phones.

83 posted on 10/19/2012 10:14:52 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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