From 1877 - 1947, the following became an everyday reality : the telephone, television, cars, flight, the light bulb, flush toilets, skyscrapers. The computer

From 1877 - 1947, the following became an everyday reality : the telephone, television, cars, flight, the light bulb, flush toilets, skyscrapers. The computer age has changed things in a big way, sure, but it's pretty hard to overstate how profoundly many aspects of human life changed in that period. There was a Planet Money episode recently about this exact topic : http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/19/529178937/episode-772-small-change http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/19/529178937/episo...