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For me, how quickly gay marriage has become accepted or the internet in general, really.

The fact that we ave the kind of technology only seen in Star Trek and other speculative fiction from only half a century ago.

And we use that technology to play candy crush and chat about our favorite TV shows.

Not that that's a bad thing, I actually think it's rather sweet that despite all this space age living, we're still people like people were at any other time, not humorless robotic saints or villains wrapped in tinfoil. Even if children born after 1995 don't know how to use a landline anymore.

It still boggles my mind that I'm not even thirty yet, but when I was a kid, I was still using rotary telephones and cassette players and vinyl records. And now everything is wireless and digital. I carry hundreds of books and hundreds of songs with me in my bag every day, where once upon a time I carried two novels and a couple of cassettes. Pretty wild.

Every now and then, when I approach a store and the doors slide open, I think, "We have Star Trek doors. How cool is that?"

And then I grin like and idiot.

you're adorable

This. Just, this.

The disconnect between polling data about what Americans think and what the Americans I encounter online think. Do folks in the Midwest not use the Internet or something? (Or maybe they're all on RPG Codex.)

Edited 2014-11-15 22:16 (UTC)

Something to keep in mind: the Midwest isn't very populous. It does, however, have a disproportionate amount of sway in the US government. In the Senate, for example, Midwestern states are HUGELY overrepresented since each state gets 2 representatives no matter what. That means populous states like California, New York, and Texas (each with tens of millions of people) each have 2 senators -- the same as Wyoming which has less than 400,000 people in the entire state.

Wyoming which has less than 400,000 people in the entire state.

Wrong. We have approximately 582,000 people. We're still over represented, but we're not that underpopulated geesh.

It's not so much regional as rural/urban...

How quickly communication works and how information really is at anyone's fingertips. It really seems so obvious...but when I was a kid there was no internet, no mobile phones, no nothing. I remember I got on the wrong tram once, and walked home for a few miles, and my mom called the cops because she thought I was kidnapped or something. These things...they're just very different now.

How easy it is for complete strangers to be unbelievably shitty to each other over the internet.

My first thought was exactly the opposite of this.

What surprises me the most is how we have technology that allows us to be as vicious as we want to anyone, anywhere, without penalty, and yet we've used it to build communities and protect the powerless and stamp out bigotry because most people just want to be nice to other people.

yeah, places like wikipedia wouldn't work if people weren't collectively good

but i also think, it's kind of telling how few communities allow anonymous commenting

+1.

That other people are surprised we haven't achieved utopia. When people say "I can't believe this shit is still happening in 2014" about things like racism, sexism, etc. Why would bad things that have been happening since forever suddenly not be happening just because it's now?

Because every generation thinks itself better than the last.

Just today I was walking down a street and there was this helicopter flying low over my head. And I was suddenly struck by the idea - that we really have these huge steel flying machines with flashy lights. It's absolutely futuristic. Some random Victorians would be so freaked out.

How easy it is to travel now. I can just take a trip to anywhere in Europe and be back the next day. People used to spend days in trains or schips to get there but for me the trip to the airport is sometimes longer then the trip to the country itself.

The swift availability of information.

When I think about what I had to go through in the '80s just to do a report or an essay, and how easy it is now to help my daughter with the same. Even helping her with her math is easier with Google and YouTube.

How quickly everything has changed and how well we as a species has managed to adapt. I mean, the Wright brothers first plane flew for 59 seconds in 1903 and since then we have landed a man on the moon, rovers on Mars, and plenty of other things out in space. Not to mention the fact that if I had the means I could board a plane and be on the other side of the world in just some hours. And then we have all the ways communication has changed!

All of this things that my great-great-grandparents could only dream about. Heck, these are things my grandmother could never have imagined in her youth and I know she feels overwhelmed by it. But with the exception of a lot of elderly people (at least in my experience), most people have adapted to the digital age just fine.

How early it gets dark. >:|

I hate daylight's saving time.

For me it's that in the 1960's with technology less sophisticated than can now be found in the pocket of you'r average teenager, mankind launched men onto the moon. People were standing on that big untouchable white thing in the sky.

Today we can't seem to reliably leave the atmosphere without blowing up.

If you want a positive "Look at the world today" spin. watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLTs4RXM3vE

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