Can't think of many real improvements to modern life apart from chat to each other a lot more?

Maybe our scientists/ engineers have run out of good ideas ?

Life just seems to revolve around this nonsense. social media.

Can you think of one useful thing?

 

NO


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Life before ATM cards and chip and pin were pretty crap.

 

Pretty much everything is better than it was 30 years ago; well apart from my mind and body.

 

Understanding of Saturn and it's moons

 

Air con in cars, pretty much standard now thank goodness!

 

Internet. Remember when I was younger had to look in adverts in car mags for parts. Choice was slim. Mags were only real source. Now with internet has opened up loads of choice and competition.

 

Telecommunications

 

Dishwashers. Flat-fee broadband.

 

Agree. Have been in the industry for nearly 20 years so seen the development and implementation of new technologies from Tetra for blue light services to 4G.


Technology is coming along leaps and bounds, with 5G round the corner and for some UK Airtime providers, on test bed already 2018 is shaping up to be a busy year!

 

Be nice if we could have basic network, for everybody , first !

 

Dentistry, medicine, insulation, safety, fuel efficiency, science, tech, engineering, agriculture, environmental awareness, pretty much everything is better now really.

I'm struggling to think of anything that was better 30 years ago. There was less littering and fewer dog ***** to be avoided when walking down the street. Odd because there were no poop bins in the 80's...

 

Can't think of anything that was better 30 years ago?

What! Like the very basics of life & the foundations of society.

An ordinary working family could afford to house & feed themselves.
Young adults could move out & start their own lives & have free further education.

 

The Internet.


Before if you wanted to know something, you either had to walk down to the library, or open up "The Joy of Knowledge" encyclopaedias, that everyone bought (then never looked at) back in the day.


Need to know something now? Google it. The world knows far more than it ever has before.

 

Internet ****.

 

Being pragmatic for a minute; There is nothing invented in this century I couldn't live without.

Although, pyrolytic ovens are very handy for those who can't be arsed to clean them...but then again 30yrs ago you could buy decent high VOC solvent oven cleaner!

Ch4 is better than it was 30yrs ago, although it's going ultra lefty these days.

Oh yeah, food on airplanes- that has improved...marginally!

 

One good one; Eurotunnel!

I do miss the hovercrafts though; they were almost as quick

 

 

Motorways! (Joking)

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.ind...176.html%3famp

Was bad under Thatch , but was it like this ?

All this even before we brexit

 

midget **** is much more accessible now,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

Almost everything is objectively better.

Since we are on Scoobynet, cars are massively improved since the 80's.

But i get your point, subjectively are things better? Are we experiencing happiness based on things having got bigger, better, faster etc.

No, I'm afraid that's the human condition though and what drives us on to try to make things better all the time IMHO.

Otherwise we would still be happily in caves.

 

Not on my work PC it isn't!

 

mrs put the child restrictions on you?

 

Albino midget ****?

 

I think it depends on your definition of better...

Cars - Faster, safer, full of more and better mod cons, but more fun? I'm not sure. I don't think I have had any more fun in a car of any age than I have had in my Peugeot 205 gti.

Flight - Planes are bigger, more comfortable, can transport more passengers but we don't have Concorde anymore. Although for only an exclusive handful of people that is a huge backwards step in travel.

Computers - Faster, better graphics, bigger games but my Spectrum worked from the early 80's until I threw it away about 5 years ago (with the obvious frustration of waiting 5 minutes for a game that occasionaly wouldn't load). My Xbox 360 lasted less than a year!

 

Sounds like a duff Xbox tbh, mines worked for years no probs.

I would say it's a symptom of modern manufacturing/design rather than a fault of the product itself, leaner and faster manufacturing meaning things don't last as long. Which is a negative instead of a positive of course. Long gone are the days where things like microwaves last 30 years.

Does raise the old, 'don't make em like they used to'.

 

I think most things have improved, technology in particular. The problem is with people, old people especially who are stubborn and won't embrace technology, they'd rather struggle and moan with something (like the good ol' days) that could be done in a fraction of the time and with minimal effort by using modern day technology.

 

Smoking ban in cinemas, pubs and planes /duck

 

One of the best things to happen.


I don't smoke but where I worked people did. I went to the pubs, people smoked. I must have walked around smelling like an ashtray.