Social Question
As a corollary to the question about what we once thought the future would be like -- what are some technologies and products we have now that we would have NEVER imagined 20-50 years ago?
We finally DO have video telephones—on our SMART Phones.
What about the fact that we even have apps that tie our shoes and adjust sleeping temperatures and mattress forms on our beds?
Kids today aren’t programmers using computer lingo as they might have been aiming for in the 1980s when many of us were kids Not sure many young people today know how the devices work. Or know the lingo we once used with computer programming in the early days. But they can operate multifarous devices effortlessly
Computers don’t talk back to us—or maybe some services like Siri, Cortana, Alexa and Google Assistant actually do.
Who could have imagined ALL the information—research libraries to old television commercials—available at our fingertips?
Talking to people around the world and even in remote places was the stuff of science fiction and conspiracies in the 1980s.
Even super heroes were limited on the old T.V. shows when nobody knew where someone was (no cell phones or global communication, news, etc etc).
What are some things which, when we were kids or even young adults, we could have never imagined would be normative ways of life in the present?