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I just watched this video on a plane, going nearly 600mph at 33K ft above northern Canada. The pace of technological evolution I have experienced in my lifetime

• julian_t 4y ago
  I often think about this. My grandmother was born at the end of the 1800s (yes, I'm old) and remembered electricity and the first car coming to her rural village in Wales. By the end of her life she'd lived through two world wars, seen men on the moon, could talk to her relatives in Australia on the phone, and been on holiday to America on a 747. And what always amazed me was that she grew up with people (mainly farm workers) who had never been more than 5 miles from where they were born. I go further than that to visit the supermarket!
  • neuronic 4y ago
    The things you can accomplish when education, science and curiosity are valued over theology... the Enlightment was truly an enormous age.
  • neurostimulant 4y ago
    Heck, I grew up in a village and I remember my family didn't have electricity when I was 6. Fast forward 25 years later, everyone there has fiber optic internet.
  • ljf 4y ago
    Many years ago, my father bought a house and one day when he was talking a neighbour about time and age, and the neighbour told him that he'd had an uncle that had been born in the 1700s... This isn't as remarkable as it sounds when I say this was in 1960, and the neighbour was 80 something, and his uncle had been born in 1798, and had lived well into his 90s. But is still seems such a large span to be able to reach back.