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The big changes, I think, are smartphones and widespread LGBT acceptance. Everything else just seems like incremental improvements to existing technology.
by rthomas6 5y ago
The big changes, I think, are smartphones and widespread LGBT acceptance. Everything else just seems like incremental improvements to existing technology.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoSmoking in bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and other places where you wouldn't even think about it now. Coming home after a night out stinking like stale cigarette smoke was the norm, even if you didn't smoke (which you may as well have).
- detcader 5y agoI'd submit two more: An incredible amount of whistleblower leaks made it possible for citizens to know what horrible things their governments are doing. There is a real check on state power when the press has such a reach now, and you can publish (or dump) materials anywhere online even if you don't trust the press. Frozen/convenient dietary alternatives to enslaving and killing animals are now easily available and it's no longer conventional wisdom that veganism will kill you or make you a stick figure person. Not likely considered incremental by those living beings!