If a time machine was invented and a person from 50 years ago was transported to now, would they be impressed by our technological progress, or disappointed that we don't all fly around in hoverships and take vacations to the moon?
2006-11-13 23:38:16 · 18 answers · asked by gingko 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I dunno, why don't you ask them - there's a lot of them alive today!
2006-11-13 23:39:58 · answer #1 · answered by cuddles_gb 6 · 6⤊ 0⤋
hi, well, i got here from 1956 without a time machine.. took me a while, but im here... so what do you want to know?
well, the world has advanced, and its gone backwards at the same time. technology has advanced in leaps and bounds, and the humanity of man, well that seems to have been trampled underfoot.
money is everything, and power is a close second. no one bothers about "things" anymore, theyre just topical fads.
we may well have machines that can do this that and the other, i know, i fully embrace these technologuical developments, from PCs, ( i learned DOS) to digital cameras. and i am amazed and astounded by it all. it is indeed magic..well it is unless you unerstand the technology behind it. if i were my great great great grqandfather, youd all be burned as witches for making of the magic black... boxes which make food hot... bigger boxes which make things cold..all work of the devil i'm sure he'd have said.
and a for the flying bird with wings outstretched and the pointy bomb go bang thing..darkest black magic if ever i saw it...
and stuff from our imagnation is already in our pockets. mobile phones, PDA's, Ipods... great tools, but with each technological advance, we loose a little humanity.
we rush everywhere, we have machihnes to tell us when were late for an appointment. we ddont sit back, for a moment and smell the roses (figuratively) we rush, and rush...and our family unit, well, that is no more. we beave like avians, we mate, teh kids appear and we move apart and onto another bird. gone are teh ways of the magpie and the swan... instead weve become starlings.
and i concerned that we arent going to the moon on holiday, no not really, because if we did, someone would want to start a war over who owned it, or the mineral rights for strip mining it...
Oppenheimer (he designed and built teh A bomb a few years ago, well the poor chap said; "behold i am become death, shatterer of worlds" nowadays our governments do just that, they shatter worlds. they destroy, they maim, and they lay waste, just like the old slavers and pirates, and they take, without thinking of the consequences of their actions...
personally, i'd like to go back now, to a time when everyone had work, teachers taught, and medicine was coming along in leaps and bounds..and we looked after each other in communities..where we never ever locked our doors at night, where our womenfolk and children were safe at night... and crime was punishable by death.
we may have had ricketts, diptheria whooping cough scarlet fever and TB, us men may have bathed in a tin bath in front of the fire, and we'd expect to die around our 70th bithday...
nowadays we seem to have stretched human lifespan into the 100 year plus..for what? so we can sit, alone and ignored staring out of windows on a world we dont understand and we dont particularly like.. not al progress is good... its just progress.
2006-11-14 08:07:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was born in 1953 so I don't consider myself to be from the dark ages exactly. I reckon I cope very well with today's technology - I use it whenever I can. I am currently doing a course learning computer programming, I communicate with my daughters and their grandmother by email. I am not disappointed about the lack of hoverships or moontravel but think that some things from back then were better than they are now - the simpler diet and lack of processed food means we were healthier then; family values and ties were stronger then, because people stayed closer to home. There are pluses and minuses and one has to move with the times and adapt.
2006-11-14 07:54:05 · answer #3 · answered by anabelezenith 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I AM from 1956!! A time machine is not necessary!
My first thought is that there has been such a deterioration in moral standards and in personal discipline. Drug addicts were, for example, contemptuously referred to as 'junkies' and there were very few around. How unlike today when jailed addicts are 'compensated' because they weren't 'properly' treated by the authorities!
2006-11-14 10:53:19 · answer #4 · answered by clausiusminkowski 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being in that case i can say that yes i am "sorry" we cant go and have a pick nick on the moon but on the other side at that time you needed about 10 cubic meters of strange instruments just to add 2 and 2!!!! The real evolution now cant be seen... just think of the incredible technology in a simple cell phone!! unbelievable at that time .
2006-11-14 07:42:20 · answer #5 · answered by talkingformydog 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most of them are still here. My gran was born in 1938 and she is still living life to the full.
I think most of them would be slightly disappointed in the youth of today - we drink more, smoke more, more chavs (which should all be rounded up in a field and bombed).
Also we're not being run by aliens or robots!!
Ever seen Space Odyssey 2001!! That never happened! x
2006-11-14 11:29:53 · answer #6 · answered by renaultfi69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, my gran who was born in the early 20's seems to cope quite well. if you are talking purely on scientifc expectation then i am sure no matter how many times they dreamed of flying cars and robot maids, they would still be amazed and thge communications revolution, it really has transformed the way we all live, foever.
just think what it was like to actually find a call box to phone someone. or to go to the library to find out something. I used to have to get off the sofa to change on of the three channelswe received.
2006-11-14 07:44:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They'd be disgusted that all those brave men died to defend our country and now a pensioner can't walk down the street without getting mugged. Or that someone can get on a tube train and blow themselves up. The standard of education and level of respect and manners would come as quite a shock too.
2006-11-14 07:53:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think they would be more shocked at the state of our society.
Fifty years ago people had no options in life but they were happy.
There was little or no binge drinking, car crime, dug abuse, anti social behavoir. They also had big families and a real sense of community which we don't have today.
They would also be shocked at how sexualised our culture has become.
2006-11-14 07:45:37 · answer #9 · answered by bluenose 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Its fantastic - I live in it. Why in the name of anything holy would anyone want to take a vacation on the moon!
2006-11-14 09:19:28 · answer #10 · answered by costa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure they would accept it is technology moved on - 1956 is only 50 years ago - hardly a lifetime is it ??
2006-11-14 07:41:13 · answer #11 · answered by starlet108 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋