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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6231695" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>So thinking about this a bit...a hundred years ago, (December 1913)</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">women could not vote in the US</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Woodrow Wilson was president</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Russia was a monarchy (but not much longer!)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Woolworth Building in NYC is the tallest in the world (the confluence of the safety elevator, 60 years old in 1913, and steel frame construction results in skyscrapers shoot up all across the US)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mexico was having revolutions</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Mideast is still the Ottoman Empire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ford introduces the moving assembly line</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can drive coast to coast on the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental "improved highway" for automobiles</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Traffic signs have not been standardized (or, in some cases, invented).</li> </ul><p></p><p>Fun fact: penicillin wasn't mass produced until the mid-1940's! Honestly, I thought it was much earlier than that.</p><p></p><p>Medically, most of us are probably relatively safe from disease in 1913, since we'll still be vaccinated and since we are "downstream" of events like the spanish flu pandemic of 1918, and so have a greater chance of having had some exposure to a related virus (additionally, the H1N1 antivirus from 2009 apparently confers some resistance to Spanish Flu, which is also a H1N1 virus.)</p><p></p><p>I wonder if our best niche in the past would be as "efficiency experts" or consultants of some kind. I don't need to know how to build a moving assembly line to explain the concept to someone. There are probably a lot of things that we're not aware of that we benefit from every day that are system improvements, rather than feats of engineering or chemistry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6231695, member: 70"] So thinking about this a bit...a hundred years ago, (December 1913) [LIST] [*]women could not vote in the US [*]Woodrow Wilson was president [*]Russia was a monarchy (but not much longer!) [*]The Woolworth Building in NYC is the tallest in the world (the confluence of the safety elevator, 60 years old in 1913, and steel frame construction results in skyscrapers shoot up all across the US) [*]Mexico was having revolutions [*]The Mideast is still the Ottoman Empire [*]Ford introduces the moving assembly line [*]You can drive coast to coast on the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental "improved highway" for automobiles [*]Traffic signs have not been standardized (or, in some cases, invented). [/LIST] Fun fact: penicillin wasn't mass produced until the mid-1940's! Honestly, I thought it was much earlier than that. Medically, most of us are probably relatively safe from disease in 1913, since we'll still be vaccinated and since we are "downstream" of events like the spanish flu pandemic of 1918, and so have a greater chance of having had some exposure to a related virus (additionally, the H1N1 antivirus from 2009 apparently confers some resistance to Spanish Flu, which is also a H1N1 virus.) I wonder if our best niche in the past would be as "efficiency experts" or consultants of some kind. I don't need to know how to build a moving assembly line to explain the concept to someone. There are probably a lot of things that we're not aware of that we benefit from every day that are system improvements, rather than feats of engineering or chemistry. [/QUOTE]
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