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I think being born around 1880 and living to 80+ would probably be the most change any human has ever seen over a lifetime in history. Many would have gone from
by ren_engineer 5y ago
I think being born around 1880 and living to 80+ would probably be the most change any human has ever seen over a lifetime in history. Many would have gone from pre-industrial revolution level tech in their personal lives growing up to seeing man go to the moon. Crazy to think about
- djmips 5y agoDifferent areas develop at different speeds. I figure lots of people more technologically devoid areas have been accelerated even faster more recently than the folks you talk about. My mother would be one. Vast numbers of Chinese I imagine.
- davidw 5y agoLaura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) very nearly lived to see Sputnik launched.
- csomar 5y agoWe are living in more revolutionary times. The thing is, when you are inside the "evolution", you don't really notice it. If you are 30-50, just try to remember the old days (taxi-phone, early days of the Internet, no digital paperwork, libraries, etc...) and you'll notice a world of change.
- Jensson 5y agoI don't think anyone 80 years ago could have imagined that the computer games we have today would ever exist. Other things we did was science fiction long before we did it, like flying, self moving wagons, going to the moon, curing diseases, eliminating famine etc, but modern computer games wasn't even imaginable.
- nazgulnarsil 5y agoFrom muskets to nukes.
- giardini 5y agoI'd rather carry a musket than a nuke!8-))
- colechristensen 5y agoStefan Zweig was born in 1881 in Austria and lived until 1942 and wrote a book about the experience in "The World of Yesterday"