Of course not. But my question was, when was this halcyon day of yore? > Things are changing much faster today, than they were in 1950 Why are you so sure abo

Of course not. But my question was, when was this halcyon day of yore? > Things are changing much faster today, than they were in 1950 Why are you so sure about that? The post-war era saw an incredible amount of change. By the end of the 1950s, transatlantic jet travel was cheap enough that ocean liner traffic dropped enormously. The new atomic age included both the threat of H-bomb annihilation and promise of new power sources and new medical treatments. New materials were being discovered at an incredible pace. The effective polio vaccine ended decades of outbreaks that left children in iron lungs - church bells rang out in joy when the vaccine was announced. Computers went from a super-secret war-time project to a commercial industry, with programming languages like Fortran and Lisp being created. The Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957, starting the Space Age, and reminding everyone that no place was safe from nuclear weapons. People felt overwhelmed by the deluge of information, which lead to Toffler's famous "Future Shock" in 1970, which introduced the term "information overload" to the popular culture. But the deluge started already in WWII when new technical reports with cross-cutting topics overwhelmed the existing library management systems. Scientists felt like they couldn't keep up with the publications in their field. Post-war suburbia started, partially due to low-cost loans from the G.I. Bill, and the new road system (including the Interstate System, which started in 1956). The racist structures at the time encouraged white families to move to the suburbs in a process termed 'white flight'. This flight was connected with the Second Great Migration, which saw black families moving to northern cities. The 1950s brought rulings like Brown v. Board of Education which started to break down segregation, and the rise of the black civil rights movement. And you say things are happening much faster in this decade?