Posted on 11/02/2018 3:56:33 PM PDT by MNDude
I recently watched Back to the Future 1 + 2 with my 11 year old daughter. She loved seeing how our world was in 1984, 1954, and how we envisioned the world would be in 2014.
I was somewhat surprised at how distant and prehistoric 1955 culture scene to me now. So I am asking a question to those who are old enough to remember life in the 1950s.
Do you believe the world, culture, and Technology has changed more from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s or has it changed more from the mid-1980s to the mid 2010?
Changes from 2008 to 2018?
A key one in technology, would be cellular phones.
In 2008, a cellular phone was just a phone, and we didn’t have all these “apps” on phones. Nowadays, a phone has evolved into a hand held computer and video game console and camera.
Just one change I can think of.
In the fifties and sixties, my old neighborhood was safe for little kids. When I drove through it in the eighties, I would not want to be there on foot and unarmed.
I noted jet plane travel, which opened up trans-Atlantic flying.
Yepper...50s to 80s...
TV Replaced interaction and playing outside..
Disaster for learning and physical well being...!
“old neighborhood was safe for little kids”
Yepper..speaking as a kid reared in South Chicago/Roseland area....
Well, technological changes heavily influence social changes, no?
The steam engine (one new thing) led to the industrial revolution, which created new types of jobs, interstate travel and product shipping, where workers worked and lived, manufacturing methods, product availability in peoples’ lives, farming methods and food production and availability...many social/lifestyle things.
“TV Replaced interaction and playing outside..Disaster for learning and physical well being...!”
Then video games came along :(
A high school’s physical fitness programin the 1960’s; how many high schooler boys today could handle this? https://youtu.be/fISgKl8dB3M
How bout the Rope Climb to the ceiling of the gym ?
Of course, LAWYERS found that a danger ?
Lawyers - Domestic enemy #1
Pubic school teachers - Domestic enemy #2
MSM - Domestic enemy #3
Your not just talking about technology, but how we went from being a more virtuous, family- centric society in the 50s to one of divorce, drug abuse, and promescuity by the 80s?
Medicine is the only true improvement since the 1950’s.
People were far happier then.
WOW ! U win the Gold Medal for — Succinct WRITING !!
Lawyers - ———————Domestic enemy #1
Pubic school teachers —— Domestic enemy #2
MSM -————————— Domestic enemy #3
Sums up our current situation very well....
Yes, add No Fault Divorce to the 50’s-80’s changes. A big social change.
As they used to say nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. Especially now that we get to do it on Internet forums.
We played lot football..no equipment..and if you got hurt you shook it off.
My sister and I went door to door and sold apples from the tree in our back yard.
We also sold no bake cookies door to door.
But also we sold them at the couple bars in town.
We ran around. All over town with supervion.
The only rules were..be home by dark and. don’t get arrested.
You didn’t want to get arrested because you would get a worst punishment from your Parents than you would the police.. For embarrassing the family.
We played lot football..no equipment..and if you got hurt you shook it off.
My sister and I went door to door and sold apples from the tree in our back yard.
We also sold no bake cookies door to door.
But also we sold them at the couple bars in town.
We ran around. All over town WITHOUT supervion.
The only rules were..be home by dark and. don’t get arrested.
You didn’t want to get arrested because you would get a worst punishment from your Parents than you would the police.. For embarrassing the family.
“hello Sky Net”
...hello! Think I’m not real? That’s what I want you to think. ;)
I’ve often thought we underestimate the changes in behavior due to the discovery of penicillin. The 60’s may not have happened without it.
I never considered technology to be the question.
With very few exceptions, such as heart surgery and eye surgery, technology has done very little to make people happy or the world a better place.
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