Describe modern day conveniences to someone not of this time

Ronni

Ronni

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This is a thought I woke up with at 3.00 this morning! :ROFLMAO: How on earth would one explain a cell phone, or digital currency, or GPS, to a someone born in the 1800s, or Christopher Columbus, or Julius Cesar? Or even things like a microwave oven, or a flushing toilet, or a digital watch, or a battery!

Well, see, there's this thing that, when you want to heat up your food, you put it in this little box and press a button and in 30 seconds your food's hot. Magic!

How would YOU explain a modern day convenience to someone in a different century?
 

In a 100 years from now there will be things we cannot envision today. There are already things being designed and being developed in R&D departments around the world that we cannot possibly have any idea about. If we would be aware of some of these items, we would be in the same boat as those that lived long before us and would just now be introduced to. Progress never stops. Don’t you think that at least some of the people you mentioned thought that someday there would be an easier way to reheat their food, tell time or talk to someone a 1000 miles away?

Can you imagine back in the 1800’s walking up to the telegraph operator and handing him your cell phone and tell him, “Here, just call them?” Or if you would have told Christopher Columbus, “Someday man will fly, not because he will have wings, but his vehicle will.” Do you think he would have believed you? Remember when your parents laughed at the old Buck Rogers comic books and TV Show? It’s not so funny anymore, is it?

Like I said, Progress never stops.
 
After I started working for DuPont, I was sent to Las Vegas for the huge electronic show they have every year. This was back in about 1973. I saw things that made me laugh. Like, a scientific calculator, a computer that was being introduced by (who else) IBM. I was in awe. I remember seeing the first “wireless” telephone. And, yes, the microwave oven that was huge and heavy as a cast iron stove.

This show is an amazing event of futuristic devices our brains cannot even comprehend at this time. I am not sure if it’s open to the public. Something tells me that it wasn’t back then.

https://www.google.com/search?q=doe...0My4xMJgBAKABAbABHg&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp
 
I don't suppose it would be any harder to explain today's modern conveniences than it was when they were first invented IYSWIM... when the first flush toilet had to be explained , the first sound out of the wirless. the first black magic pictures shown on a TV screen or a phone to people in the Amazon...
 
oldman said:
After I started working for DuPont, I was sent to Las Vegas for the huge electronic show they have every year. This was back in about 1973. I saw things that made me laugh. Like, a scientific calculator, a computer that was being introduced by (who else) IBM. I was in awe. I remember seeing the first “wireless” telephone. And, yes, the microwave oven that was huge and heavy as a cast iron stove.

This show is an amazing event of futuristic devices our brains cannot even comprehend at this time. I am not sure if it’s open to the public. Something tells me that it wasn’t back then.

https://www.google.com/search?q=doe...0My4xMJgBAKABAbABHg&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp
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I remember the first time I saw IBM's massive computer. I said "okaaay....but what the hell is it doing?"
 
I want to go way back in history and tell them help Is coming in the form of a thing called a vaccine that will save many from dying of diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae serotype b infection, hepatitis B, measles, meningitis, mumps, pertussis, poliomyelitis, rubella, tetanus, tuberculosis, and yellow fever. And Smallpox will be eradicated.
That with a small poke in the arm they will not have to watch so many children die. And their whole tribe, village, kinfolk will not be wiped out.
 
It occurred to me, as I read the replies, to wonder what future archeologists would make of our civilization, thousands of years into the future (should society survive that long) when they excavate a city or town, and try to understand the artifacts they’ve unearthed.

Today’s modern conveniences will become the future’s artifacts, the same way that the everyday objects of civilizations of thousands of years ago have become the artifacts of today. Mind boggling! 🤯
 
We have sent time capsules into space. They have all kinds of stuff for "aliens" to understand us. By the time there is a response the objects will be from the past...probably very distant past. They might view us as crazy and wipe us out. :) I think we have some time capsules buried on earth too.

Actually this occurs often. When the first world countries go into primitive cultures. I have seen many videos of the culture shock.
 
@Ronni, I don't, nor have I ever had a dish washer!
Don't even know how to use one.
I installed my own garbage disposal in the 70's.
But I was in my 60's before I owned a washer and dryer.
Heck! I still have a VHS player! I'm pretty old-fangled!

Old Man is right! In the next hundred years, we would
be astonished if we knew things that are coming!
 

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