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Yes but you're talking about life-altering technology...That's the author's whole point, most of that stuff already happened by 1973. That's why he'd take 1973
by jhamburger 16y ago
Yes but you're talking about life-altering technology...That's the author's whole point, most of that stuff already happened by 1973. That's why he'd take 1973 instead of 1900 or whenever. We mostly live the same way now as we did in 1973, just with more gadgets. If you said "I miss not having holographic phones and VR porn" that would be a better example.
- colomon 16y agoAll I can say is, your life must be a hell of a lot different than mine. My job (writing programs used by people around the world, all from my home office in small city Michigan) could not have existed in 1973. Indeed, my house probably has computing power equivalent to that of a good-sized university of the time. A sizable percentage of the food I eat was not available anywhere outside of a Chinatown then. My favorite genre of games, role-playing games, had not yet been invented. Nor had the high blood pressure pills I take. The surgery I had at new year's would have meant days rather than hours in the hospital. And my son could never have been born. Life-altering? Hell yes.