If it could stay just one year technologically forever...

[peverett]

1918-1925? No treatment for TB (My grandfather on my mothers side died from it at age 52 just before antibiotics in the 1930s)? Lynchings? No treatment for polio? Are you sure?

My grandfather and grandmother did live through these years, did not get to hang out with Marconi, had to work every day on their farm just to survive(including the backbreaking work of picking cotton manually). They had no running water, only a well and outhouse and had no electricity until 1950).

2008 sounds better to me all the time(but would like to be younger in age).

[Aage]

Originally Posted by peverett

1918-1925? No treatment for TB (My grandfather on my mothers side died from it at age 52 just before antibiotics in the 1930s)? Lynchings? No treatment for polio? Are you sure?

My grandfather and grandmother did live through these years, did not get to hang out with Marconi, had to work every day on their farm just to survive(including the backbreaking work of picking cotton manually). They had no running water, only a well and outhouse and had no electricity until 1950).

2008 sounds better to me all the time(but would like to be younger in age).

Well, all that is true, and my Danish grandad, a bricklayer who hardly spoke English at all, worked in the building boom in Chicago in the '20s didn't feel like Rockefeller, but he did feel wealthy relative to the folks back home. He sent his pay home to his mother in cash, by mail, by the way.

See, you can criticize all points in history, even today: where's our cure for cancer? Why isn't there universal rights for all men?

No, for me that time was flush with the excitement of the new inventions of Telegraph and Radio, plus the train, then the motorcar opened up the vast spaces of North America to all. Yet these were still far from being mature technologies, used by everyone.

You could smell the opportunity...