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?
More from the 1950s to the 1980s..
I would answer that but I need to find and “old timer”. LOL
mid-1980s to the mid 2010
50s to 80s but it also made me think of a story my Grandmother wrote for the local newspaper.
Her first trip to Geneva, Alabama was by oxcart. She saw truly momentous changes by the time she was in her 80s.
I qualify and you are definitely correct.
the early 50s to mid/late 60s were a time unto themselves. the culture changed drastically (downward) late 60s to early 80s. technology has been the driver of change (and whatever is left of “culture”) since then.
1954/55, nobody in space. 1984/85, regular flights with the Space Shuttle.
1954/55, B&W tvs with only a few channels, no personal computers. 1984/85, personal computers and almost everyone has a color tv and cable with VCRs.
1950s to the 1980s, no question about that.
People changed MUCH more from the 80s to now. Technology changed more from the 50s to the 80s.
Much more from the fifties to the eighties.
The internet was born during the 50s to 80s. I think it actually started by universities to share research information. To me it has spurred more change than any other single technology.
” So I am asking a question to those who are old enough to remember life in the 1950s.”
Me,I was in my 20s-——and as I’ve posted before,I looooved the 50s.
Economy humming and no Nanny State———wonderful.
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That is an excellent observation my friend.
I was born in the early '50s and remember the Eisenhower years as the best years of my parents life. Much like Ozzie and Harriet.
My parents remember the ‘50s, and have said it was prime time. Their grandparents remembered life before the airplane was invented; they, and my grandparents, probably got serious whiplash from living through the 20th century, though it was a century of miracles. And at least they lived in the USA rather than, say, the USSR.
Me, I’d like to have seen the 1870’s to the 1920’s, except they were lacking antibiotics and youtube. :)
Yes, biggest change from the 50s to the 80s. My father was born in 1896 so he knew of the first manned flight by the Wright brothers and lived to see the first landing on the moon. As a child, I experienced life without electricity and inside plumbing and we were still in a post WWII culture era.
The rate of technological and scientific discovery has accelerated continuously for the past 200 years (at least) without a break. So definitely more change since the 80’s than in the 30 years before then. The Internet alone has caused more changes by itself than the prior generation’s technology (that it was built upon) taken together caused, in my opinion.
I was born in 1954. The changes from the 50’s to 1970 seemed to be mostly cultural. I remember black only entry doors and drinking fountains. The Vietnam war polarized the young people and ended the patriotism left over from WWII. People went from dressing up to go on a bus trip to dressing in shorts, flipflops and a t-shirt to get on a plane. Vending machines appeared over night and schools went from having just one fat kid per class to having just one skinny kid today. (I remember reading on a decent sized bag of potato chips that it contained 2000 calories.)
Then, the technology started changing. In 1972 I went from using a four function calculator at school that was half the size of a desk to an HP35. A year later I had an HP45. Then, I had a programmable HP65. In Engineering school the teacher said, “The next chapter is vacuum tubes. We decided to remove it from the curriculum. You will never see a vacuum tube.” In the 80’s we went from the Motorola brick to flip phones in what seemed the blink of an eye. I had a 2003 Marauder with 32 valves and 300 hp. Today, you can get that from a four cylinder.
I have heard it said that the very last thing humans will invent is artificial intelligence. Hello Sky Net.
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