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Poll: Does it make you crazy when you think about how much technology (and hence the world) has changed in 100 yrs?

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mostly the next 20

i cant wait to say i told you so to all my friends. but when all my pipe dreams are a reality, no one will remember i told them about them earlier so what really does it matter?
 
Its been pretty interesting to see how technology has progressed, but falls very short to what was predicted back in the 50's and 60's. Flying cars and people living on the moon, what were they thinking 😀
 
I honeslty cant think of any new echnological advances we could make.... but im sure thats what they thought 100 years ago 😛
 
We are bumping up against Einsteinian physics -- hence transportation will change comparatively little vs biology and computers
 
...horse back transportation was the norm just 100 years ago..when the oil runs out we might need em again..
 
Originally posted by: notfred
the world changed more due to technology between 1900 and 1920 than it did between 1984 and 2004.
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I wonder where we would be today if the "horseless carriage" didn't come around until the 1950s?
 
Originally posted by: notfred
the world changed more due to technology between 1900 and 1920 than it did between 1984 and 2004.
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It depends on the area you are focusing on. From 1900 - 1920 Travel was the main improvment that changed almost everything. But from 1984-2004 Communications has been one of the major changes. We went from thousand dollar giant satilite dishs with fairly poor reception and few chanels to 1-2 foot dishes with HD Quality television and hundreds of channels. We went from writing a letter to someone across the world and waiting a couple of months for a responce to writing a message and recieving a responces from all around the world almost instantly. While cell phones exists they where large and bulky, and had poor reception and sending capabilities. Now we can commincate almost anywhere with a cell phone to almost anyone.

Yes the changes from the 1900's where significant, and probibly more of a physical challenge. But the advancements now require more of a challenge on our minds then anything in the 1920's ever did.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
the world changed more due to technology between 1900 and 1920 than it did between 1984 and 2004.
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I disagree.

I remember a conversation I had with my grandfather sometime in the middle of the 1960s. He had been born toward the end of the 19th Century. I was abouy ten years old. We were riding in a car on the freeway on the way to meet an airplane. He was telling me how he had seen so many big changes in his lifetime, like the automobile and the airplane, but that what he had seen was nothing compared to what I would see over the course of my life.

He was a smart old guy, and I later came to believe that he had glimpsed the early stages of technologocal convergence, and had a sense of what it could mean.

So while there were some big milestones in the early 20th century that certainly made possible what was to come, I think the most important strides in technological development came in the last part of the 20th Century. The development of the Web may represent the last great milestone of advancement for the sake of technology, before the big corporations finally took hold of everything.
 
i still think the 2 biggest were the telegraph and then radio. Communication over wire, and then without wires made the biggest change in human history since the printing press.
 
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