KingoftheCove wrote:Almost 30 years ago, I asked my wife’s grand parents a similar question.
“What was the greatest invention for you”.
(Keep in mind they were both born before 1905.)
Grandma took all of 2 seconds to answer…………….washer and dryer!
Grandpa thought about for a couple minutes, then said……………..television!
And grandpa did love his TV. He was one of the first to have one back in the day, and then one of the first to have one of those HUGE satellite dishes in his back yard.
My father-in-law had to pour an 8x8 slab of concrete in their backyard just to mount that monster in the ground!
I miss them both…..
TV, radio, and internet have had HUGE impacts on human evolution.
It was a big deal when we graduated from a 13" B&W to a 19" color TV. Big investment back then. Now days, you can buy flipping 50" high def flat screen (low end but way better resolution that the old CRTs) and mount it on the wall for the price of a dinner and a movie night out with the family.
AND you don't have to get up off the couch to change the channels (98.2% of them suck anyway)