'95 back to '75: - no mobile phones - no personal computers (and punchcards and 'computer time' were still a thing) - internet didn't exist at all,

'95 back to '75: - no mobile phones - no personal computers (and punchcards and 'computer time' were still a thing) - internet didn't exist at all, apart from a handful of people - civil rights for minorities and women still in it's infancy (much more difference 75-95 than 95-15) - cold war at it's height, no 'pax americana redux' - blue collar work was still very common, and poorly paid as a result - the 90s was when the trades started to make serious money - fitness craze of the late 70s + 80s not in view yet; smoking wasn't seen as unhealthy - portable music players didn't exist - international travel eased considerably (though maybe as much again to 2015?) - 24 hour trading came in in the '80s and early '90s. In the 70s, if you hadn't done your shopping by Sunday, you would go hungry... - exotic food amongst anglos was 'stroganoff', 'stroganoff', and 'stroganoff' - the food revolution kicked off in the '90s :) The thin glassy touchscreens we have now are seen in scifi at least as far back as the '60s; they're not all that suprising, I wouldn't think. China's industrialisation might not be so surprising either, given the amazing things Japan managed to do in the relatively short time after the Meiji Restoration - in only 50 years they were sitting at the big players' table in naval treaties limiting size of fleets, for example.