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All of this is wildly exciting - I wonder if this is how people in the 1800s and 1930s felt like, as electricity and nuclear science was going through its hey-d

• spauldo 1y ago
  Your time's a bit off - electrification didn't really take off until the early 20th century and nuclear applications outside of weapons until the 1950s and 1960s. My grandmother grew up when cars were scarce, electric wires were stapled to the wall, and indoor plumbing was for city folk. She hit a certain level of technological advancement and then just stopped, probably around the 1980s. She died last year, having never used the Internet or a computer and still using a console TV (with an adapter box installed by the cable company).