>The GPS program started in 1973 and the first satellite was launched in 1978 and was became fully operational in 1995. Prior to that, what global system for lo

>The GPS program started in 1973 and the first satellite was launched in 1978 and was became fully operational in 1995. Prior to that, what global system for location identification existed? Yes, it was called the Loran-C system. It wasn't something you could put in your phone, and it wasn't as accurate as GPS, but it worked on very similar principles (maybe still exists?) and every airplane and boat above a certain size had a set. You will note that OP said "GPS like systems" rather than "GPS." That's the problem with using superficial googling rather than, you know "knowing shit." You're talking about speech recognition as a consumer device; yes, that came later, because everything on a computer was pretty much restricted to large centers until later. But speech recognition was reasonably well developed in the 60s and worked on limited problems. Conceptually similar to crap we use now in call center software which uses simple filters, kmeans fingerprinting and huge restrictions in the space of words. As for your dismissal of antibiotics; your own ignorance of history is showing. I have a pile of housewife manuals from the pre antibiotic era. Most of them are concerned with taking care of people who had debilitating infectious disease (fascinating reading for what it was worth). Why? Because every family in America was going to have someone laid low by infectious disease. Sometimes for years! If you look back in history; one of the leading causes of death pre antibiotics was gonorrhea. Imagine dying from bleeding out through your urethra. That was your potential fate if you participated in naughty non-monogamous sex before penicillin. There are historical laws on the books which cause doctors to put silver oxides on children's eyes after birth; this was to prevent gonorrhea induced blindness. These sorts of problems don't exist any more; it's been so effectively wiped out from human experience in modern societies with access to antibiotics, presumably educated people like you aren't even dimly aware of it. You can, as I said in the original article, attribute the sexual revolution not to the pill; it was antibiotics which made it possible, as promiscuity potentially meant rapid death in the old days. You nitpicking that "well we still have diseases" is simple historical ignorance. No shit we still have diseases, but you have apparently forgotten how many we used to have that are no longer a problem. Because of the tremendous revolution of antibiotics. I don't have good old days glasses; the "good old days" were horrible and brutal compared to now. I merely note the incredible breakthroughs of earlier era are not repeated in our modern era of "progress." Probably because things are so soft now.