If someone came back from 50 years ago, what would you tell them is different?

I'd say it's a lot more fast paced than back then, better roads, schools, and hospitals. What about you?

i would tell them to forget it and go back!, society is knackered, morals have gone, respect is gone,the country(UK) is full to bursting with immigrants only here to sponge of the system, entertainment consists of judging people, be it singing,dancing,cooking, selling things etc, money is the root of all evil and the roads and rail networks are a shambles....... oh and the empire crumbled and now we have nothing left, except the queen is still going :)

That too

Well, I would tell them that the cold war is over and now the government and the media is telling us that jehad terrorists are the enemy to distract us from other problems and bad stuff that is more likely to happen to you. I would tell them that most of the music that young people listen to these days is rubbish and you can't even smoke in a bus shelter now. There is colour television though and I know that we all like to think that there was some sort of a "golden age" there but it was just that TV shows got bigger audiences because we didn't have loads of cable channels to choose from. There's a thing called the compact disc and it was supposed to be indestructible but that was a load of BS and when you get a little scratch on them they're knackered. Everyone has mobile phones now but when you try to call anybody you just get this voicemail thing. Kids no longer walk to school and they all sit about playing video games and getting fat. We now know that it's usually not strangers that beast up little kids but like with the terrorism, the media has scared the crap out of parents by going on and on about peados. So, they now prefer it when their kids stay home and go on the internet because there are no peados on there. Also, if you get a girl pregnant she gets a council house and money from the government instead of being sent to a nunnery until she has the kid and it's adopted by decent married couples that can't have kids of their own.

.. I would tell them.
. I know we have not advanced much have we..
.. sorry to disappoint you. we're still burning fossil fuels..
. the roads are worse than they ever were.
. government is still dictating to everybody..
. a loaf of bread still cost what it did back then.. relatively speaking..
. the rich keep getting richer..
. oh but we have managed to wipe out the middle class..
. we are still. not going into space.. we talked about it a lot.. throw up the the odd hunk of metal...lol.
. oh yes we are now becoming the third world by the way..

Very well said no1

Also I would add that the British laws and freedoms, you know the ones that 10 years ago millions of people lost their lives to protect, well they are dictated by some made up European government, but thanks for the sacrifices you made on our behalf

So sad, a ty to them also

about the same as then!

Brighter Side...
1. Latest technologies / devices (ppl falling in luv on m2)
2. Grade A herbs
3. Varieties of food / meals
4. Go out & live the night life
5. Show people complaining about their life / adapting to change

fewer things are still stigmatized , except poverty

divorce doesn't have much stigma
sleeping around doesn't have much stigma
being a 'working' parent gets you kudos regardless of how much effort is spent actually 'raising' kids
women are more easily able to work outside their home and away from their kids
more men are opting to stay home with their kids
more kids are growing up in 'alternate' families, mother and father no longer considered the healthy 'norm'
the 'greater good' is communist, the 'self fulfillment' is the standard
we have ALOT Of things to plug into, much more media, much more information(unfortunately much more FALSE information too)
fewer libraries
more 'integrated' facilities and services
more of a crackdown on public smoking of cigarettes
hemp is illegal
the prison system has grown exponentially, mostly with drug offenses

The "futuristic technology" on star trek in the 70s, the flip phone and handheld video conferencing, that was as amazing to contemplate within my own childhood memory as aircars and nuclear powered planes...or hybrid cars and affordable sports sedans pumping out 300 kilowatts at 28mpg and purring like a kitten in traffic. Simply a wireless comms headset used by computer geeks today was outlandish futurism back then, the best you could replicate that worked would weigh 2kg, have no usable range cordless and just give static everytime anything remotely electrical or magnetic passed by.

These things seemed like they'd arrive centuries in the future of mass produced technologies, not a mere 30 years. Go back further and it was building sized mainframes for the capability of a current iPhone, a modern tablet is beyond what was even achievable prior to about 1968 in any sense, you couldn't match the processing power of a modern gaming desktop until the 80s and it'd still take a room sized mainframe.

Everything was valve and vacuum, solid state was still the latest thing. That means a fuel injection system for a car would weigh as much as the engine and be about as complex, it was visibly mechanical systems that pioneered that road and it was mass produced digital technology that revolutionised it and created the modern automotive engine as well as the computer revolution and a fighter jet that could actually hit another fighter jet reliably with a missile (not until the mid-80s in point of fact and still not very reliable until the 90s, still easily jammed until just recently, military technology is confused by propaganda: it's never as good as claimed).

You could predict these things, because it was the way technology was headed and the groundwork was actively being laid, but nobody could've expected it to arrive within mere decades, it seemed such an advanced comparison to imagine, that it seemed centuries away before being mass produced and afforded by the common worker.

Other than that, international politics hasn't changed, but domestic legislation is still undergoing periodic and linear reforms, slowly average standards of living are being raised in some areas, found wanting in others and around that goes again, minority groups are becoming better represented, others disenfranchised so that goes around again.

One main difference is everything has become more generally accessible now. Everything, from organic produce to information sharing, to domestic and world travel, a lot of it is probably based upon the raising of the technological bar and its accessibility. Individuals are becoming far more empowered simply because there's no real way to stop them and doing so is accessible due to readily available technology.

So in ye olde times if you kept hearing jerks yelling stupid political slogans and wondered if the whole world was crazy so you kept quiet; well nowadays you go on the web and find that jerks are actually in the minority and so you don't have to keep quiet at all, but can rest easy and make them irrelevent instead of powerful.
In that way, although the only true social evolution without speciation is by proxy, that proxy is indeed accessible technology.

Today, I think people are far more socially empowered than they were in the 60s, well beyond the capacity of public demonstration or music festivals can achieve. Primary schoolers can look up advanced theoretical astrophysics if they feel like it, go to school the next day and just absolutely blow the entire classroom away. The door on individual potential is definitely wider today, although that potential was always there. People don't really change unless the next hominid species replaces us and has a different physical brain structure.

People have changed from compassionate to non-compssionate; from giving to taking or using; from sympathetic to non-caring; from a composite family unit to whatever; from self-sufficient to government dependent; from free to enslaved in one form or another; from giving of oneself to help others to total selfishness and a feeling that you have to be on top to matter at all....sad state of affairs! If we all changed from these attitudes, we could change the world for the better! We all matter in one way or another; how wonderful it would be if everyone gave what they had to offer positively to change the world for the betterment of all humanity! JMHO!

Welfare pays much better than responsible, self-reliance.

Slave. Who wouldn't choose that over freedom?

Don't ask a liberal. It'll just confuse em.

I'd rather have freedom personally!

back to the internet surge of endless bits of information

including FALSE information,,,lol

I've always believed in being self-sustaining, regardless of what "free" stuff there was out there to take advantage of. It's just my "way of life". Doesn't have to be everyone else's, just my "code of ethics".

min wage in Nevada 1452 per month,,

mother and child tanf 318
food stamps 347

cash and resources for food on assistance in Nevada 665
cash and resources for food(cash) on minimum wage in Nevada 1452 per month

I never believed anyone was completely 'self sustaining',,,I believe everyone leans on someone or something at points in their life,,,

I don't feel there should be shame in that part of humanity,,,in order to help others there have to be others in need and able to have the confidence to accept help without feeling their ego threatened or diminished

i might point out that today there are more people enslaved than at any other point in human history.

while we have made some progress with technology, as a spices, we have not evolved very much.