> I'm always amazed by the quality and craft of works produced in the periods before roughly the 1960s. Yeesh. This statement is not defensible. The fifties-e

> I'm always amazed by the quality and craft of works produced in the periods before roughly the 1960s. Yeesh. This statement is not defensible. The fifties-era cookie cutter houses were pretty bad (but at least they moved past using coal and gaslight and knob and tube wiring and so on). The quality of passenger cars has only ever trended upward, with a dip during the combined energy crunch and inflation of the seventies that was remedied pretty quickly. The sixties ushered in the era of solid-state consumer electronics.