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What are mundane actions we get to do everyday with technology that would be a superpower to people from before say.. the 1600s? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Camille_Jamal@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Everything, almost. Cars, phones, computers, spices, water on demand, electricity, the quantity and quality of almost everything, etc.

If the average person from, say, mid 1600's were teleported to now, they would be so unimaginably confused, and hostile towards everything, and that makes sense, since so much has changed.

The internet would be something beyond comprehension for them, yet it's something most of us use multiple times a day.

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