how the heck did things move so quickly in half a century? I can’t even fathom where this country could be in a few hundred years barring a collapse. Funny my high IQ is kind of worthless when it comes to common sense or foreseeing technological revolution. Heck, I don’t know what it’s been good for lol
My 24 year old son is fascinated by the technological changes seen during his immediate relative’s lifetimes:
* great grandparents - first electric power, first phones, rise of low-cost and plentiful steel, trans-oceanic telegraphy, wireless communications, first heavier than air flight, first automobiles, x-Rays, smokeless powder, elevators, steel framed sky-scrapers
*grandparents - antibiotics, rise of commercial flight, television, rockets, satellite communications, atomic weapons, huge dams, Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building, supercritical steam generation for high efficiency power generation, electrification of the country
* parents - manned space flight, interstate highways, internet, microelectronics, pervasive computers, high speed global optical networks, gene splicing and genetic engineering
It really brings history alive and in context.