for example if someone from the 90's skipped forward to today they wouldn't thinkTHAT much had changed, but what about the 80's and 70's??
how far back before they got a REAL shock at the difference?What do you think about this? a time warp?
I went to school in the 1960s. Then, a computer filled a whole room, there were no mobile phones, very few colour TVs and hardly any colour broadcasts. We still got free milk at school because nobody had ever heard of Margaret Thatcher ( Oh that it had only stayed that way! ) and we still had old money. The space shuttle hadn't been though of, astronauts went up on a Saturn Five. Communism was not yet a failed experiment, the Berlin wall was still up and lethal, Vietnam was on the news every night, phone boxes were red and had button A and button B and calls cost four pence no matter how long they lasted. Boys had long hair and wore flares and hipsters. Designer clothes hadn't been thought of though some brands like Levi and Ben Sherman were higher regarded of than others.
We still built our own ships and mined our own coal. Nobody had ever heard of a carbon footprint. There were hardly any Chinese or Indian restaurants, no Kebab shops, no MacDonalds or Burger King or KFC%26gt;
You could walk down any street in Britain and hardly see a black or brown face. The European Union was unheard of, though we were being softened up to join the Common Market. Schoolboys could still be caned for bad behaviour. Most women still wore stockings instead of panty hose. Condoms were mostly sold in mens' hairdressers, although then we called them barbers, only women had hairdressers. Cars still had cross ply tyres and carburettors.
I think that anyone from the 60s who could be transported instantly to the present day would think that they had landed on another planet.What do you think about this? a time warp?
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Well, the tv show %26quot;Life on Mars%26quot; pops a guy from today back into the 1970s and he has a lot of culture shock to deal with, just as much of it sociological as technological.
I think you'd have to go back to about the 1940s to get real culture shock. But heck, I dunno, even someone from the 40s could probably take the shock and adjust.
I guess to get %26quot;too much shock%26quot; like they couldn't adjust couldn't accept it you'd probably have to go back at least 100 years.
What do you think about this? a time warp?
For me if I went back I would notice what was missing.But I'd say before the wright bros they might freak out today.What do you think about this? a time warp?
I agree with Feythe, probably the 40s.
I remember seeing a comic book cover form the early 50s showing a space pirate boarding a space ship, holding between his teeth ... a slide rule.
Now, this was supposed to happen in the future, when man had discovered space from their spaceships. And pirates are often shown boarding ships with a knife between their teeth. So the idea of the slide rule was good except ... that no one use them anymore: digital calculator, PocketPC, etc. have replaced for a few decades the old slide rule; the tool of the navigator of the past.
So, no one knows what the future has for us but ... it will probably be very different from what we think! ... isn't it exciting?
