What a list, and we used to take that for granted, just like the still famous TV shows, hitting golf balls on the moon, historical scientific and medical breakthroughs almost being routine, few recognized what the poison pill of the new, barely reported immigration law was going to bring.
Who remembers where they were in September 1965?
Yeah the downside of that era are apparent. one show I recall when my family lived in california in those years was the jetsons. as a kid I thought all the science fiction stuff would be fulfilled in a decade or two. It didn’t happen. But now it looks like all the underlying technologies are in place for the truely science fiction world that science fiction writers have been talking about for 70 years or so. Its going to come as fast and faster than the flow scientific achievements in the 1960’s. The social stuff will still suck.