I am 65 and adore my smart phone. I can do everything I want to on it--though I know there is more it can do, as well. But on it I often turn on the voice recognition without meaning to. I suspect poor design.
I think what the meme originator probably meant to ask is "if someone who died in the 1950s came back to life today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to him or her?"
As it happens, I've been watching a lot of 1950s-vintage railroad promotional videos on YouTube lately. They all reflect the boundless optimism of the period; America had just won World War II and was in the middle of the greatest economic boom in its history. Jobs were plentiful, and millions ordinary industrial workers could buy houses in the suburbs and raise families on one paycheck.
I think the question would be: how did the American dream die?
interesting question. human nature hasn't changed much; just the technological means by which we indulge its various fancies. maybe the fraction of our economy that is involved in higher-order financial instruments? to someone from the 50s that would likely seem like we were building a giant house of cards (and indeed, who is to say we are not), and it would be pretty hard to explain why more has not been done to correct it.
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It's true. We waste a lot of technology on play.
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I think what the meme originator probably meant to ask is "if someone who died in the 1950s came back to life today, what would be the most difficult thing to explain to him or her?"
As it happens, I've been watching a lot of 1950s-vintage railroad promotional videos on YouTube lately. They all reflect the boundless optimism of the period; America had just won World War II and was in the middle of the greatest economic boom in its history. Jobs were plentiful, and millions ordinary industrial workers could buy houses in the suburbs and raise families on one paycheck.
I think the question would be: how did the American dream die?
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