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From: dca@edison.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
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Subject: Re: Re: A Speculation on "Back to the Future"
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 09:39:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 09:39:28 1985
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> Here's a topic me and some friends have been bandying about:
> 
> What things about 1985 would be most suprising to someone from 1955?
> ...
> Any comments?
> 
> Charley Wingate  umcp-cs!mangoe
> 
Pervasiveness of computers and hand held calculators, of course.
Especially hand held calculators because practically everyone owns
one and there wasn't even an inkling of such in 55 except by some SF
writeres.  Getting a sqroot without reference to a table would have
been nirvana in 1955.
In general, the revolution in electronics that has happened since 55
due to advancing technology and foreign cheap labor competition.
VCRs, SLR cameras, Fancy TVs, incredibly cheap Quartz watches, all
manners of boom boxes, mass market stereo, walkmans, remote phones,
digital dashboards, cars that talk, coke machines that talk, video games,
...

David Albrecht
General Electric