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CELL PHONES........... :rolleyes:

a PILL for EVERYTHING....even skanky toenails!
Monster Houses
Tv's in every room
The internet of course
intolerance/fear
Christmas (the commercialization of it)
The commercialization of most special days
locking our doors
not dressing up to fly
the way we talk and write

1. Fax machine
2. Computer
3. Internet
4. Cheapening of goods, equipment etc. Old fridge lasted 24 years, new fridge 6. This one has change my life because now I buy the cheapest piece of crap I can find because the expensive ones aren't going to last any longer than the cheap ones; whereas I used to buy the best ones...they used to last 24 years.

Reaper.....so true. Also so sad.
Law- I can remember my Great Grandmother talking about how her husband went out and bought the first "motorized cart" in this little south Texas town. She was so scared of the thing, she wouldn't ride in it. Still makes me laugh. If she were alive today, can you imagine what she would be thinking?
I used to use a Telex machine at my first job!
I think the internet has probably made the most "leaps and bounds" as far as hurling us into the "Jetsons" age.

Most people (in the US anyway) don't even appreciate running water. Or electricity. I've lived in the mtns with no running water and no electricity for as much as ten years at a time. Hooked up a malamute to a sled that carried my daughter in a mile. Gave her a bath in a galvanized tub filled with melted ice sickles. Cut the wood around the cabin for heat....oil lamps for light...and I loved every minute of it. THEN, I'd jump in my 4wd and drive down the mtn. and go to work, and live in the cilivilized world for 8 hours.......! Now you know why I have a split personality!

1. My blowdryer
2. Mascara

Sorry it's not more profound.

My husband and I read a lot of Sci-fi and it's so interesting to read stuff written in the 40's thru 70's - so much of it is our reality now, and so much of our reality simply wasn't imagined then!

How did they get those cell phones so right on Star Trek??????
And Maxwell Smart's shoe phone!!!!!!

I can't wait for the car George Jetson drove! The next big transformation in life will be in our mode of transportation.

Tele-pods like in the movie The Fly! Then we can all tell the airlines to take a hike. Beam me up scotty!