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What do you think the biggest will be, for historians or future citizens, looking back? It seems to me that the big shifts can't always be seen clearly at the time, although on the other hand, sometimes everything seems to be changing and it all feels really important. Only looking back do we necessarily glimpse some of the biggest ways the world has changed.

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A hundred years ago, a huge number of people produced their own food, while these days it's become a gigantic big-business endeavor, with some pushback from farmer's markets and such. But these days (at least in the USA) most people are dependent on grocery stores and their sometimes-arbitrary pricing, factory farms, etc.

My view is that big change is coming. Bananas may die out within decades; look up Panama disease. That's one small change, really, but it will have massive global significance if it happens.

I think there are big changes coming down the pipeline, as we reach a tipping point of what the masses are willing to put up with from the 1% and big business. I think most of those changes will be good--upheaval to society, equity, and government. The internet has brought a lot of unexpected changes, as well, and I think it's helped young people to have a clearer view of the world than a couple of generations ago, believing whatever the media told you.

Anyway, what do you think people will look back on and say "wow, what a sea change!" Also, do you think it's alreayd happened, or is still coming?

To your second paragraph:

Bananas are not going to die out. The Cavendish likely will, but they'll just get another type of banana to replace it with. Of course, that doesn't mean that particular type will be immune to disease, but we have a long ways to go before there are no more bananas in the world, period.

I hope you're right! I don't even eat bananas but they're like one of the top food items in the world and a lot of people depend on them for survival not to mention livelihoods. But really, how quickly can a crop *that huge* be replaced by a new strain? IDK. Everything I've read / heard about it is pretty dour and not very hopeful. (I want you to be right, though.)

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Manzano bananas, man. They're smaller and sweeter than Cavendish bananas and IMO a million times better. Problem is, they're small, like half the size or less of a Cavendish banana, and their skins need to get practically black before they're ripe. But holy crap if you've ever had a good ripe Manzano you will seriously look down on the Cavendish as the inferior banana.

But what about us people who like to eat their bananas mostly green? I start going 'meh' at a yellow banana, and once it's got a spot or two, we're done - hate 'em! Into the freezer for banana bread.

Is the Manzano any good green?

The internet and social media have been the biggest in my life so far (neither existed for decades after I was born). Also phone technology: I went to school with a few kids whose families didn't have telephones at home (I mean land line home telephones), now I don't think I know a single person who doesn't have their own personal phone.

Same anon

Also computer technology! In high school, the stenography class was discontinued a year before I would have been eligible to take it, and a new class called ~data processing~ was introduced. When I took that class, the program language was DOS. And very few people had a PC because they were crazy expensive. Look where we are now, it's incredible if you think about it.

Lol I remember when the internet was for sad losers and I had an uncle who told me I'd never land a man because guys don't like lady geeks who know how to fix computers and spend all their time online. He thought the internet was just a fad and it makes me smile whenever he asks me or his daughter how to upload a picture or find people on Facebook. He tried to get me to fix his computer for free one day and I asked him if he'd build me a house for free (he's a carpenter). That shut him up pretty fast.

Lol wow @ your uncle!

It's a pretty amazing thing, that you can be in your PJs in bed and FaceTime someone on the other side of the Earth, and be able to see them and not just speak to them. The internet/computer is an incredible invention.

Any kind of real time video chat is just awesome! Many of my relatives live in another country and I just love being able to Skype with them. I remember when I was really little they didn't even have a phone (early 1990s). My mom would have to sit and write letters to them. Now she can FaceTime her sisters and they can show each other their worlds. It's seriously science fiction come to life and it's marvelous.

Exactly, I can't remember the last time I wrote a paper letter to someone, it had to have been the mid 1990s. Everything is email or text now! Pretty damn impressive!

Trump. Just Trump.

He will kill us all.

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