People 50 years and older. how has technology changed over the years?

Question

People 50 years and older. how has technology changed over the years?

Answer 1

TV went colour. Phones went mobile. Computers shrank, from needing an air-conditioned room to the laptops we have today

Guitars went electric. Pianos became electronic keyboards. Post became email. Cars have changed so much - better braking, more economical engines, better safety. better entertainment systems.

Microwaves appeared for cooking.



Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Dang! I qualify to answer this one!



The entire computer thing has come about in the last 50 years. Things like floppy drives and CRT monitors where the latest & greatest then have gone extinct already. The Internet, wireless technologies, laser printers, ink jet printers, usb drives, all the media cards (SD, XD, MMS, etc.) did no exist. There was no internet, if you had to research a paper, you spent hours in the library. Every home had a set of encyclopedias and a couple of dictionaries. Or you went to the public library.



Electric typewriters (which were new then) have been replaced by word processors and then computers. Typewriter erasers and carbon paper went bye bye.



Microwaves in the home were high tech! Cameras used to be film only. And all music used to be on records, then 8 track tapes, then cassette tapes, then CD's and now mp3.



Magnets, lasers, electronic circuit boards, resistors, all kinds of chips are all new technologies within the last 50 years.



I made the joke to my husband about 15 years ago that before long we would have the power to fly the Space Shuttle from a laptop. The first computers used by NASA for those early flights had less computing power than a calculator does now days. When thinking about what little they had to work with, it's really quite amazing!



Cell phones didn't exist; we all had these old black rotary dial phones. When touch tone came out and the phones got smaller and sleeker, we thought we'd died and went to heaven. Then came cordless and answering machines! Pay phones used to be everywhere, in nearly every store, gas station.



All we had for TV was what the broadcasting companies put out. Cable didn't really exist at first, everyone had their old antenna. VHS was huge! We could watch what we wanted, when we wanted! Then the VHS vs betamax battle. VHS has given way to DVD and DVD to Blu ray.



It is quite amazing to track some of the changes in tech and how it was affected our daily lives.

Answer 3

I am 10 years shy of 50, but I think a 40 yr could still answere this one. When I was in Jr. High there was no computers in the schools the most technology they had at that time was a word processor and elc typawriters. The word Windows ment some glass with a frame around it. You opened doors, they did not open for you. Vehicals lasted longer and were much easier to repair. Cable TV was new and you was considered well off if you had it. I cant not tell you how happy I was when we finally got cable and I no longer had to go outside a turn the antenna in tell my dad yelled, "ok!" Video games were new and I had the pattern to Packman down. Ataris was the home game system and you knew who was a Atari Junky by the blisters on their thumbs. Commador interduced what they called a home computer and called it the Adam; it basically was a word processor that you hooked up to your TV and it had a few games such a Pog and Buck Rogers. You wanted to chat with your friends you went out to a local hangout talked face to face. It was still freash on peoples minds of space discovery and nuclar war. Scientist wanted to take us deeper into space and also make Star Wars to hopefully protects the US from the possiabilty of nuclar attacts.People started losing jobs because they were being replace by mechines or illegals. A whole new job market opened up due to the new technology in computing, healthcare, designing, and so forth. And in my generation everyone wanted their M TV, thanks to cable. Sorry I had to throw that in there. I believe Technology has help but then also hurt.

Answer 4

A lot. In my day, for instance, we had to do our own homework as we didn't have the internet to ask people on.

Answer 5

They have internet on computers these days?

Answer 6

"Software" wasn't even a word yet.

Computers were around but they were as big as a room.