08-31-2013, 07:37 PM | #151 | |
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There may have been a significant change in the way my grandparents lived after WWII when my grandmother stopped killing her own chickens and went completely store-bought instead. Much of that though was economic and not technological. They couldn't afford to do that until after the war. This is one of the major factors in actually changing the mass of people's lives. The increase in Wealth by TL in Gurps is reflects real facts of economic growth. So many of the technologies you and others identify as "existing" in 1900 had little real impact on the mass of the US population or their lives at that point. By the way there may not be any actual telegraph companies in business any more. I know the last telegram in the US was sent a number of years ago and I saw a piece earlier this year that "the last telegram in the world" had been sent in India.
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08-31-2013, 07:50 PM | #152 |
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Well in my case the technologies I mention were intended to be technologies that were either not available in 1900 or weren't in general distribution yet but were in full force by 1950.
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08-31-2013, 07:52 PM | #153 | ||
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Yeah, rural conditions would be behind the cutting edge, just as the Third World is behind our cutting edge. A lot of the difference there is neither economic nor technologically but political, e.g. rural electrification and other subsidies for extending services and roads beyond the cities. Quote:
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09-01-2013, 04:48 AM | #154 |
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09-01-2013, 06:29 AM | #155 |
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