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Originally Posted by flstf
When I think about all the things that my father's generation has been through, I don't feel that I have been through all that many significant changes:
- The change from an agricultural society to an industrial one
- The advent of the automobile and air travel
- The Great Depression
- The New Deal (Social Security, etc..)
- World War II
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The Electronic, Nuclear, and Space ages
- The advent of computers and the Information Age
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That's an interesting list...
The one that stands out for me is "The change from an agricultural society to an industrial one". We are in the process of going from Industrial to post-Industrial as we send nearly all our manufacturing overseas. This is causing a major shift in the economy and culture... the results aren't in yet but I suspect it will be nearly as important as agricultural to industrial.