Most difficult imho would be to explain why we haven't advanced any further. If the person is 50 in 1950 he started with horse carriages and saw development to intercontinental bombers, rockets etc. The landing on moon would astonish him, advances in medical sciences and computing too but he probably would ask: "And what are you using that neat little gadgets for?"
Ronald Reagan was President for 8 years.
That's heavy doc
Not to mention the Bush imbeciles.
Depends a lot on the color of their skin.
How easily we can know anything, yet how diligently we fail to learn anything.
School shooter drills
They'd wonder why nobody got their shotgun from their locker and fired back.
The remote control T_T
That we've been to the moon and back, and that they can casually toss into their pockets a device with enough "thinking" power to do the necessary math for the task and then some.
And that we still can't make nylon stockings that don't "run," but that nobody cares because we don't wear them anymore.
That, and transgender is normal.
If your tire pressure is low, you have to pay money….for air.
It was the 50s they'd have been used to car adjustments. This was THE AGE for small- adjustment businesses
Mobile phones and the internet.
mobile phones are easy, in 50s some of people would be familiar with (ww2 era) military radios that could transmit voice, just explain that you don't need to carry entire backpack of radio equipment, everything fits in this small device
Mobile phones as phones—yes, maybe that's easy. But that we don't actually use them to TALK to people would be weird.
How after World War 2 we didn't truly learn and still fight wars over racism, nationalism and other reasons that keep us from uniting.
How we managed to ruin the earth to a severe degree in just 50 years or so.
And video games.
And The Flintstones.
How after World War 2 we didn’t truly learn and still fight wars over racism, nationalism and other reasons that keep us from uniting.
I mean, we've been doing that for thousands of years. I feel like it would be more unexpected if we stopped.
True.
Just feels that after the deadliest conflict in history we would have learned so as not to repeat that insanity. But we didn't.
Probably how we went to the moon and then later successfully sent a rover to Mars to study and take pictures. It's something I can't really explain on a technical level but it happened
In the fifties they were aspiring to that already, engineering seemed unstoppable. May not understand how we could pull it off and then our own kids don't believe us, though.
We still work 8 hours/day!
But we also won the cold war
You know what I'll be just take them grocery shopping at a supermarket and show them that for X amount of money you'll get less items.
That doesn't have much meaning once you explain inflation as a concept.
They'd already know about the basics since fiat currency existed long before the US.
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