I’m just going to steal the response I read years ago.
“I possess a device, in my pocket, that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to man. I use it to look at pictures of cats and get into arguments with strangers.”
And porn! So much porn!
Why the Nazis are back
This is the 50s, I think it’d be pretty easy to draw a line from casual racism to white supremacists. A key difference this time is that it’s not just Germans led by one insane man, it’s instead a bunch of redneck prices and conspiracy theorists.
Before the US got involved in WWII, there was a giant Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden…
That shitty actor from Bedtime for Bonzo becomes president.
“Ronald Reagan, the actor?!”
And he made life worse for nearly everyone.
Most difficult imho would be to explain why we haven’t advanced any further. If the person is 50 in 1950 he started with horse carriages and saw development to intercontinental bombers, rockets etc. The landing on moon would astonish him, advances in medical sciences and computing too but he probably would ask: “And what are you using that neat little gadgets for?”
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Ronald Reagan was President for 8 years.
That’s heavy doc
Not to mention the Bush imbeciles.
#3 Why we still haven’t got colonies on the moon
#2 Climate change
#1 That fascism is back
That we’ve been to the moon and back, and that they can casually toss into their pockets a device with enough “thinking” power to do the necessary math for the task and then some.
And that we still can’t make nylon stockings that don’t “run,” but that nobody cares because we don’t wear them anymore.
That, and transgender is normal.
toss into their pockets a device with enough “thinking” power to do the necessary math for the task and then some.
“And then some” is a bit of an under statement. An iPhone 14 is literally millions of times faster than the Apollo Guidance Computer.
We walk around with a little rectangle in our pocket that gives us access to the sum total of human knowledge, but we mostly use it for looking at funny captioned pictures, the same pictures over and over just with different captions.
It’s called a phone but no one ever uses it as one.
Also, the “video telephone” that everyone always so desperately awaited from the future? Yeah, we have that; no, nobody uses it, because we can’t be bothered to dress up for a phone call.
I also thought no one used facetime until I worked retail recently… The amount of people I saw come in on a facetime calls where they both just had their cameras pointed at the ceiling was bizarre and boggling.
Depends a lot on the color of their skin.
Why the Nazis are back, and in America of all places
The remote control T_T
School shooter drills
How easily we can know anything, yet how diligently we fail to learn anything.
Nothing as sobering as showing a techno-optimist what the future really looks like
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