Cool stuff we take for granted

[Maleg]

Originally Posted by Easy E

I also recall reading that a single issue of Wall St Journal today has more information than people who lived in 1900 would have received in their entire lifetime.

I think you should question your source on this one. Newspapers printed a lot of information in 1900 and books were common as rain. People had access to a lot of information back then, they just had to pick it up on their local street corner instead of on their phone.

[Fleetlord]

Cell Phones.

It comes to light every time I have family and friends come over from the UK and they absolutely will not upgrade their mobile plan to work in the USA. They just use WIFI and WhatsAPP. It's almost impossible to plan and coordinate anything. They won't even get a burner phone and set it up. It's a huge PITA

Yes, I am a pre cellphone person and had the pager and payphone deal, but it sucked then and since that infrastructure of payphone is long gone now, it is almost impossible to live in modern society with out it.

[Easy E]

Originally Posted by Maleg

I think you should question your source on this one. Newspapers printed a lot of information in 1900 and books were common as rain. People had access to a lot of information back then, they just had to pick it up on their local street corner instead of on their phone.

Checks out

[Easy E]

Originally Posted by Fleetlord

Cell Phones.

It comes to light every time I have family and friends come over from the UK and they absolutely will not upgrade their mobile plan to work in the USA. They just use WIFI and WhatsAPP. It's almost impossible to plan and coordinate anything. They won't even get a burner phone and set it up. It's a huge PITA

Yes, I am a pre cellphone person and had the pager and payphone deal, but it sucked then and since that infrastructure of payphone is long gone now, it is almost impossible to live in modern society with out it.

Today’s cell phones are really amazing and really taken for granted. Could you (the general you) go a week without yours, two weeks?

[superdog]

Originally Posted by Fleetlord

Cell Phones.

It comes to light every time I have family and friends come over from the UK and they absolutely will not upgrade their mobile plan to work in the USA. They just use WIFI and WhatsAPP. It's almost impossible to plan and coordinate anything. They won't even get a burner phone and set it up. It's a huge PITA

Yes, I am a pre cellphone person and had the pager and payphone deal, but it sucked then and since that infrastructure of payphone is long gone now, it is almost impossible to live in modern society with out it.

good point. very true.

[SOG DIVER]

Firefighters are in planes a lot in Montana and many National Forests. They are called Smoke Jumpers.
The parachute is an amazing piece of equipment. Even when it strikes the ground, it doesn't burst into flame like most aircraft do in crashes.


I wake up relieved in the morning..., not living in or west of Nevada...then I check my reliable Swiss mechanical watch to make sure it is still CST or MST.

Just returned from Ireland, visiting Belfast and the Free State. The Irish do not spend a great deal of time on their oxymoron phones
like our below 29 somethings do... they are actually enjoying life and family.

[Maleg]

Originally Posted by Easy E

Checks out

I think your AI is hallucinating. Quantum energy was discovered in 1900. Not everyone back then was Max Planck, but people were inventing a lot of technology that is still in use today. And it was every day people, like the Wright brothers, that were coming up with all these great ideas.

[Fleetlord]

Originally Posted by Easy E

Today’s cell phones are really amazing and really taken for granted. Could you (the general you) go a week without yours, two weeks?

Not at all. I wouldn't leave the house without it at all.

[alex.cicollo]

Dogs. Old school cool!

[Krash]

Originally Posted by Easy E

Checks out

That is totally believable.

Real time information from across the globe vs limited information that was days, weeks, or even months old. And the further away you lived from a big city, the more limited the information was. Not everyone had access to the New York Times or Philadelphia Inquirer back then. Let’s face it. The rural newspapers were no match for the big city newspapers.

Plus, the literacy rate was only about 20% back then. Today, the literacy rate is close to 90%. So, limited information and a limited percentage of people that could actually consume the information.


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[Krash]

Originally Posted by Fleetlord

Cell Phones.

Absolutely.

There is the communication aspect, which is amazing. Also, news and information, which is also amazing.

But it’s so much more than that. My entire music collection is now on my phone. I bank with my phone. I make payments with my phone at the grocery store. I store plane tickets and board flights with my phone.

I get weather alerts. I control security cameras. I control lighting in my house. I can take pictures with it.

I could spend the next 30 minutes listing things…


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[1st amg]

Remote Car Starters….for crappy weather like this, car warms up, it turns on heated seats and heated steering wheel. Heaven!



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[ERH]

My grandfather was born 1895, he lived through all four years at the front of WWI, a builder, he incorporated new ideas, new products, electrification, elevators, air conditioning, automatic transmissions, television, and man in space and back. Antibiotics. The wonders he saw make us blush, his was an era of wonder.

[Speedbird-1]

Breathing…….even whilst we’re asleep.
Pretty cool, don’t you think.

[Blansky]

A lot of stuff we take for granted today is little more than a mild convenience but in reality we were able to accomplish them just fine 50 years ago.

Some things today are cool toys, some are huge advances and other things are a rapid slide backwards.

I always remind people that indoor plumbing and sewage disposal was a massive game changer on quality of life, hygiene etc etc and very few things we've come up since can match how it changed our lives for the better.

Try living without it for a few days.