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.
if you typed all of that out from rote memory then I hope you’re in some kind of scientific field :)
the media loves to say that liberals in general are smarter or more educated than conservatives. This board proves that false by a mile.
I remember when I was the smartest boy in grammar school. Then not so much in high school. And even less in college lol.