Born in 1890, my great-grandfather had great-uncles who fought in the Civil War. He saw the invention of the automobile, the airplane, two world wars, and saw the Apollo 11 moon landing a month before he died.

I was born in the 80s, I have been trying to take stock of how much life has changed since then. Cable television? Satellite television? Cell phones to smartphones? The internet? Life hasn’t seemed to have made much progress. When we get down to it life isn’t radically different now than it was in 80s. Just hoping there is more that I’m simply not noticing

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    3 days ago

    … The automobile was for a long time just a more expensive carriage…

    100%. To add:
    Automobile was actually slower than the horse for good many decades.

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      1 day ago

      A good horse is like 3 horsepower at least :)