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I think a 1970s American would get a kick out these:
I think they'd find 4k OLED TVs impressive too. Maybe generative AI. A lot of other things like Bitcoin, eh, whatever.
There's things that are slightly futuristic, like lightbulbs that don't really burn out and barely need power to run, or antidepressants that don't completely fuck you up. But yeah, in the 1970s they'd kind of maxxed out what's physically possible with a lot of technologies, while they were still projecting linear growth like they'd seen over previous decades.
Now I'm curious how high gas prices got in the 70's oil crises, in 2026 dollars. Uhhh... looks like it was comparable to now, actually.
Ah, ah, ah, "we" decided?
Energy Crisis 2.0
1992 born but I've said to my mom crazy how nothings changed. Updated to work the same as before but other than that attempts to change everything is a major flaw.
I was born in the early 80s. Things HAVE changed big time. A lot of things that we do not see on a daily basis that have changed majorly. Medical tech is one. most people do not work in the medical field and do not pay much attention to it (I am one of them!) but the sheer amount of stuff that has changed in medicine is staggering.
Like transportation hasn't changed though. It's all update to function exactly the same.
Not everything has stayed the same but a few things of our daily lives that we thought were going to be more extravagant or technology driven aren't and now some of the things that have technologocal advances we wonder why the fuck they need them, like toasters. Why the fuck does a toaster need Bluetooth?