It can be easy to get stuck in a rut and forget that the world is in a constant state of flux and forward motion. As time progresses, we collectively learn to adjust to the changes, especially if new technologies are directly affecting our everyday lives. It must have seemed like a miracle when the first telephones were installed in people’s homes, but now we carry around an international database in our pockets. What seems normal today was an adjustment just a short while ago, so can you imagine how far-out our society might seem to a time traveler from the 1950s? Let’s play a little thought experiment as we look at 18 of the hardest things to explain to someone who hasn’t had the last seventy years to roll with the punches!
#1: The Internet and Social Media
This is, perhaps, one of the trickiest things to explain to someone who lacks any and all prior knowledge of the technological advancements we’ve undergone in the last thirty years. “There’s a place in our computers that knows everything…” Would that land with a time traveler from the 1950s without inducing them to ask a flurry of “How??” questions?
