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1970s People React to 21st Century Sept 18, 2018 14:06:12 GMT

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Post by Zyobot on Sept 18, 2018 14:06:12 GMT

Sept 12, 2018 8:36:50 GMT stevep said:

Sept 12, 2018 2:13:48 GMT Zyobot said:

Since today's the 17th anniversary, I want to address a far more...depressing aspect of the post-20th Century world.

How will 1970s people react to 9/11, especially as it took more lives than Pearl Harbor? What about all the chaos that followed throughout the rest of the 2000s?

They would probably be surprised that extreme religious fanaticism is a problem and shocked that the military power of the west, albeit badly mismanaged, has proved so impotent at handling it.

Indeed. The more asymmetric conflicts of the 21st Century aren't simply a slugging match between nation-states like the wars of yesteryear; the emergence of fourth-generation warfare will be something new to them, I'm sure.

How will the downtimers react to China's economic reforms and exponential growth since adopting them, especially in regards to the fear that it could one day surpass the United States? And what about the fact that the USSR collapsed in 1991, leaving the no-longer-communist Russian Federation in its wake?