Change is inevitable. What do you think of the changes during your life?

IMO the two greatest things were the birth control pill and the internet.

Both have been good and bad for society but that's true of many changes in our lives.
 
I agree Birth control, the internet... Seat belts.... and satelite TV, with remote control, and also remote controls for everything around the house... Digital music, . and of course the ever changing tiny phone that does everything you once needed a , Phone, Radio, Video camera and stills camera for, all, in one tiny box...

Example... Today I took this picture of my neighbouring farm.. not on my bulky camera.. but on my tiny slim Iphone X... and I can send these pictures in an instant worldwide or equally video to ... no more sending airmails abroad that took weeks to arrive....

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Is that a ufo, mid center to the right touching the cloud?
hollydolly said:
I agree Birth control, the internet... Seat belts.... and satelite TV, with remote control, and also remote controls for everything around the house... Digital music, . and of course the ever changing tiny phone that does everything you once needed a , Phone, Radio, Video camera and stills camera for, all, in one tiny box...

Example... Today I took this picture of my neighbouring farm.. not on my bulky camera.. but on my tiny slim Iphone X... and I can send these pictures in an instant worldwide or equally video to ... no more sending airmails abroad that took weeks to arrive....

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Lots of social changes as well. Who would ever have expected a black American president, a British royal of mixed race, and now an openly gay candidate for president? Or a female candidate, even if she didn't win?

Language has changed, not necessarily for the better. Some of our TV channels seem to be more interested in constantly pushing swear words than the meaning of what people are actually saying. This has inevitably affected everyday speech as well.

Shopping malls are becoming extinct. All kinds of religions are popping up all the time. Ideas about gender are changing and being challenged all the time. The #Metoo movement has had an impact. Job titles have changed, and so have courses in schools. Doctors are often women, nurses are now often men.

Many, perhaps most women work outside of the home, even if they have children. And there are stay-at-home dads.

Changes in medical prevention and treatment are enormous, too many to list here.

And yet...

You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh,
The fundamental things apply as time goes by.
 
Not sure I'd agree that birth control pills have a strong negative side or have been particularly bad for society, but there's no sense in quibbling about genies that are not going to be stuffed back into bottles anytime soon. At least I pray they won't be.

From my perspective as a liberal female American, US cultural changes over the past 65 years have been overwhelmingly positive, recent setbacks notwithstanding. I had - and have - choices that my grandmother didn't dare even dream of. Unless we deteriorate into some sort of Handmaid's Tale type of dystopia, my grandchildren's lives will continue along this trajectory. (Gender equality is as freeing for boys as it is for girls.)

Racial equality has been slower but it's a whole lot better than 65 years ago. I can only hope that (again, recent setbacks not withstanding) this overall trend continues and gathers momentum as older generations of haters die off and are replaced with people with more inclusive philosophies.

I do miss nickel candy (including giant CHARMS lollipops), the freedom for children to play without being supervised by adults hovering within an arm's reach, and a world in which we aren't all terrified of some random lunatic breaking out a gun and mowing down innocent victims who are going to work, enjoying a movie, a concert, a church meeting, or engaging in other innocent activities.
 
The nations population has more than doubled in my lifetime. I find it hard to think that this is a positive change.

Medicine has made some enormous advances. That has been a big plus for me.
 
norman said:
Is that a ufo, mid center to the right touching the cloud?
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hahaha!! Funny because when I downloaded the picture first of all fom my phone when we got home , my husband said exactly the same thing...well he actually said ''what the heck is that in the sky''?... but when I enlarged it, it turns out to be a bird. ( it looks like a top hat)...but it's a bird with both wings flapping downwards...
 
The trends toward coldness, rudeness, and competitiveness are disturbing. It seems people only get together to condemn others. Intimacy seems outdated. People are becoming callous. Bravado is replacing honesty.
 
I'm not 65 yet so I hope it's okay if I post my opinion.

The changes in my life have mostly been personal. Learning to live on a low income has been very hard but I have been doing it for a good time and am improving upon it.

Seeing loved ones pass and then seeing them gone for so very many years and silenced. Has made me think, a whole lot.

Dealing with, and not always in a good way, major illnesses has changed me in many ways.
 
It’s all very stimulating to me

Technology moves a bit too fast

But

It has to
Keeps a pace ahead of this fragile economy

But one can step out
Take a breath

I’m doing just that

As for the growing years, the corporate years, I was too distracted to sense changes

One lives long enough, retires, one gets something out of it all

We are a fortunate bunch here
 
Hmmm.. I'll go along with birth control and the Internet, and I'll throw in vaccination against polio, TB and many other previously fatal diseases. And then there's easier travel. Even from this little village, I can drive to the nearest airport (40 mins away), catch a plane to London or Amsterdam, and from there to anywhere in the world.

On the other hand, I think that "social media" , instant communication and news from anywhere in the world has become a monster that is taking over our lives. Consider the number of people wandering around with their lives totally dominated by one of these over priced "smart" phones. Like fire, they are a good servant, but a bad master. I have a basic 'dumb' phone which I rarely use. I value my privacy and the ability to "disappear" if I want to. Sadly, that is being rapidly eroded too.
 
Capt Lightning said:
On the other hand, I think that "social media" , instant communication and news from anywhere in the world has become a monster that is taking over our lives. Consider the number of people wandering around with their lives totally dominated by one of these over priced "smart" phones. Like fire, they are a good servant, but a bad master. I have a basic 'dumb' phone which I rarely use. I value my privacy and the ability to "disappear" if I want to. Sadly, that is being rapidly eroded too.
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Oooh! I like that description, Capt. Lightning. Well put!
 
Changes? Bad air, polluted water, environmental devastation, loss of privacy, more crime awareness of truly horrific atrocities our species commits, daily. Yeah, gimme a time machine and I'm back in the 60's. (I know, full well, that things were probably as bad, if not worse, then, on many levels, but I was happier, then, most of the time.)
 
Birth control didn't occur to me, but it did drastically change our behaviors. Growing up, I heard all those jokes about the "rabbit dying". No longer was sex a loaded gun. And I don't agree with the internet. I believe it was the invention of solid state electronics, which ultimately lead to the internet. Without transistors, none of the advanced electronics would have been possible. Every kid had to have a $3 "transistor" to get the "Top 40".
 
There have been many changes in aviation, most all for the better and safer. In particular, going from an (aviation) gasoline, or avgas powered engine to a turbine jet powered engine was a huge leap.
 

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