crazy large electrification is only like a century old seems older or like a hundred years actually isn't much time at all? ante-electrical age just feels so experientially distant
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computers could be passe soon didnt take long with fucking lightning running through wires to automate all of our labors electricity was boring by the 80s and probably before who can even name their power company or find a plant on a map apart from the nuclear accident ones
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seems like the concept of science fiction was well-established by the 1950s imagine that would help
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It’d tougher if it was 1880-1950 vs 1950-2020
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hm probably right
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Tell you what: I'll ask my grandpa about this. He was 14 in 1950, it would be fascinating to see what he thought about the future vs what it became.
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Oh /please/ do!
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it's fun reading orwell and watching him do the same class of freak out you're doing now about modern industrialization
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wonder if people are underestimating the Fussell-y social changes that fell out of the great war
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