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I'll buy that IF you can tell me what innovations in 1961 were affecting the general public, and who was driving them. I rather suspect cultural memory is shor

by synnik 15y ago

I'll buy that IF you can tell me what innovations in 1961 were affecting the general public, and who was driving them. I rather suspect cultural memory is short-term.

cryptoz 15y ago
Space travel. 1961 was a hot year. Yuri went to space, for example.
- Evgeny 15y ago
  However it's Yuri's name that comes to mind first, but how many would immediately remember Sergey Korolyov? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov