Zyobot
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Post by Zyobot on Oct 15, 2018 2:24:34 GMT
More than MTV, flamboyant hairstyles, and the Reagan Revolution, the 1980s was also a decade of technological advancement. Walkmans, with their music on the go and all, created a whole new distraction for cruising streetspeople. Video game consoles entered the market. VCRs allowed people to record and preserve currently-playing shows for future enjoyment. And primitive home computers like the Commodore became semi-widespread--among many other, more obscure innovations that paved way for the technologies of the New Millennium.
The next few decades have seen this Digital Revolution continue to play out and deliver even more amazing results; internet, cloud computing, and a smartphone in the common person's pocket is just a sampling of what 30-something years of progress can achieve.
One might be inclined to ask, what would 1980s people think of the various and ever-changing technologies that we now have in the 21st Century?
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Post by James G on Nov 5, 2018 22:37:45 GMT
Very soon, after the shock-horror of what is available with modern tech, they'd be glued to their smartphone screens on the commute and bingeing on Netflix at home. The culture shock would go fast, especially among the young. Morale outrage at some things would still see everyone fast to have a look, just to check it out for themselves and to be sure they want to be disgusted.
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Post by Zyobot on Nov 6, 2018 12:47:38 GMT
Very soon, after the shock-horror of what is available with modern tech, they'd be glued to their smartphone screens on the commute and bingeing on Netflix at home. The culture shock would go fast, especially among the young. Morale outrage at some things would still see everyone fast to have a look, just to check it out for themselves and to be sure they want to be disgusted. Heh. I wonder, though, if the reaction would be the same if 80s tech were ISOTed to the 50s, 50s tech were ISOTed to the 20s, etc. There'd be backlash from the moral guardians, interest from young people, and accusations of addiction to those ISOTed devices as well, I'm sure.
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Post by jennysnooper87 on Jul 9, 2019 16:52:02 GMT
I wonder what they'd make of modern games/consoles like the Nintendo Switch, given the most popular gaming franchise during the 80s was Super Mario Bros.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2020 0:45:50 GMT
probably saddened that we dont have fancy antigrav/space tech as expected, but marveled with the Internet/eletronics that we have achieved.
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