> That's a very romantic approach ("good old times"), My grandfather used to say: So when was the good old times, because I don't remember them? He was born in

> That's a very romantic approach ("good old times"), My grandfather used to say: So when was the good old times, because I don't remember them? He was born in 1921. The point of picking a somewhere in the past would be to avoid debating which things we'd want to get rid of, and instead focus on which technologies would we have adopted, if we had the current knowledge of it's ramifications. E.g. we'd skip the mass adoption of internal combustion engines and go for EVs if we had the full future vision and technology in 1940, so we should get rid of gas and diesel cars. To it was just to have a reference point where living standards where fairly high and where most of us wouldn't be completely lost, and use that as a starting point for judging the value of various technologies.