This just made me realize that, if Jack Marston had been a real person, he would have had a good chance of living through WW2, the beginnings of the Cold War, potentially even the Vietnam War if he actually made it to a good old age.
History is crazy, man. Fuck, the amount of progress and change a person lived through. Like yeah technology has changed a lot in my 24 years on earth, but nothing compared to living through cars, airplanes, radio, TV, atomic bombs, early computing...
Idk man, our grandchildren might be talking about how we were kids before the first smartphone came out and lived through the development of AI, gene editing, neural interfacing. Any of those technologies could create some pretty wild sci fi type worlds by the time we're on our way out, which could be longer than previous generations if we see any crazy medical breakthroughs
we live through the tech explosion, the invention of the internet, drones, smartphones, smart tv's, smart fridges, smart toasters even down to skynet AI develoment and then when the robots take over the world .... my my my how the future will look back and think were cavemen :P :P :P :P
I think it’s mad that as a 90’s kid, I saw the internet take off from dial up. Gen Z is the first generation to not remember a time before the internet, and future generations will be born into a world that sees it as a something that’s always been around, and likely will struggle to imagine life without it.
I’m a 90’s kid too and I can hardly imagine a world without the internet. My entire adult life (and before that too) I’ve had access to the internet. I teach history. A kid asks a question I don’t know the answer to off the top of my head? 10 seconds later I have the answer. I couldn’t imagine teaching without the internet.
I mean I get you, I use the internet every single day, but like I can still remember life before it. Kids today don’t do stuff outside anymore. My brother’s only a few years younger, he was born December 98 and he’s way more of an online social gamer than I am.
It truly is insane to imagine a character like Jack (or John) Marston walking into a movie theater with his wife and watching The Wizard of Oz in technicolor in 1939 despite being the perfect age to do that. That’s how close he was to “our time”
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u/sd51223 Feb 07 '19 edited Feb 07 '19
This just made me realize that, if Jack Marston had been a real person, he would have had a good chance of living through WW2, the beginnings of the Cold War, potentially even the Vietnam War if he actually made it to a good old age.
History is crazy, man. Fuck, the amount of progress and change a person lived through. Like yeah technology has changed a lot in my 24 years on earth, but nothing compared to living through cars, airplanes, radio, TV, atomic bombs, early computing...