My Grandparents were all born in the 1800s. They died from the 50s to the 70s. They saw the transformation from ox cart travel to supersonic jets. Their parents lived through or fought in the Civil War.
Electricity, radio, TV, men on the moon and on and on.
There has never been such a change in technology, ever.
Amazing. Steam engines increased the speed of human travel back in the early 1800’s for the first time ever, that was huge. But these last 100 years have been over the top in terms of human accomplishment. But we have lost a lot in terms of human interaction as well.
There's been various opinions on what era featured the most stunning technological developments. The period from 1850-1900-1905 might be the greatest as far as incredible change experienced by the average citizen. In 1850, about the start of the Industrial Revolution, they did have steam engines.
But in the next fifty or so years they went from people mostly traveling by horse or boat to airplanes and gasoline-powered automobiles. The radio was invented as were motion pictures and numerous other mechanical and electrical devices.
But again there was immense progress from the early 1900s to 1950 and beyond. Many years ago I talked to a man who was born in the late 19th century and was about 80 at the time I conversed with him (1972). He said modern people had no idea of how life was so much easier in 1972 than it was in the early 1900s. I believed him.
Electricity, radio, TV, men on the moon and on and on.
There has never been such a change in technology, ever.
Same here. Amazing isn't it? As a child, I remember my grandmother talking about her father hitching up the buggy to go to church on Sunday.
My grandmother was born in 1895. She, in her youth, and her parents had more in common technologically with Abraham, Isaac and Joseph than they would have with me today.
Truly amazing!