If someone from the 1950s suddenly appeared, what would be the most difficult thing to explain about life today?

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That we've been to the moon and back, and that they can casually toss into their pockets a device with enough "thinking" power to do the necessary math for the task and then some.

And that we still can't make nylon stockings that don't "run," but that nobody cares because we don't wear them anymore.

That, and transgender is normal.

That, and transgender is normal.

If they don’t like that they wouldn’t have to travel very far to find a bunch of people with a 50s mindset about it.

toss into their pockets a device with enough "thinking" power to do the necessary math for the task and then some.

"And then some" is a bit of an under statement. An iPhone 14 is literally millions of times faster than the Apollo Guidance Computer.