The folks in this thread are misinterpreting the comment. It’s not that someone from 1970 wouldn’t understand the concept; it’s that they would rightfully think that it’s stupid and judge you for putting up with it.
Did anyone ever actually eat this sort of thing, or was it just the recipe book equivalent of a fashion show? Or perhaps it’s just regional. I sure as hell never ate that in the 70s.
Apparently my grandparents did in the 70s and thought themselves very futuristic for it. That being said my grandma is well known as the worst cook in the family and my grandpa was known for mixing all his food together “because it’s all going to the same place anyway”…
Can confirm, have boomer parents who wonder wtf is wrong with everyone just freely giving up all their personal data to the people they spent 15 years being drilled not to give their information to.
On the other hand;
“I don’t care because I have nothing to hide.” - My mother, born 1961, when told she should stop using Chrome.
Even in the early 00s it was already hard to grasp for some folks. I had friends who called me a liar for claiming that I could charge my mp3 music player by slotting it in the USB port of my tower as opposed to swapping out AAA batteries
I’m not sure about the timeline on portable mp3 player development and popularity, but this was 2002 or 2003 and I was the only one in my friend group who had one with a li-ion battery as opposed to AAA-batteries.
“USB doesn’t deliver power, it’s for file transfer!” I was told. Some of my friends were also really stupid, though. That could have contributed to this wonder of technology.
Well, I realize that 1970s sounds like an age of dinosaurs to some people… But, people back then weren’t cavemen. They had electricity, batteries, video cameras, telephones.
The concept of an electric outlet in a couch is easy - not sure, but they might even had such things back then. Like to feed a lamp or something. USB is just low voltage and different connector, from the power transmission perspective.
The concept of a speakerphone with video signal is also easy. The only thing to grasp is that the devices and batteries became that miniature and efficient. Oh, and wireless.
Explaining that all video and voice recordings from all these neat devices are actually stored by a gigantic corporation, processed with voice and face recognition algorithms, and used to enrich personal profiles collected on all parties of the conversation to boost profits of said corporations, and many people even pay for this - THAT I would find complicated to explain.
Mobile phones wouldnt be strange by the 70’s. Two way handheld radios and car phones been around since the 40’s and the first cellphone was demonstrated in 1973.
It’s not that they would be dumbfounded like a caveman, it’s that there would instantly be a lot of weird questions.
Why do you bother to have electricity coming out of your couch? Why is a “doorbell” on battery, those are just buttons wired to a chime? Why did you call it a doorbell if it’s an intercom with camera? What do you mean you answer the doorbell using your phone? Why do you call it a phone when it’s a computer that you barely use to talk on it?
Yes you could explain things and they would catch on, but the sentence would be odd, and not likely a trajectory for terminology and applications of technology they would have naturally expected.
All sorts of times I reflect on how much I’d have to explain odd sentences to even how things were 30 years ago. Like using your phone to turn off the lights.
Wait, you have to charge those Spyware doorbells?
Only if they’re not hardwired in - lots of people where I live just stick them to their doors so there’s no wires.
If it’s hardwired in, it’s not significantly harder to steal than otherwise. Clipping a couple of wires connected to a doorbell transformer is significantly easier than dealing with whatever mechanism is used to release the doorbell from it’s attachment.
Also, you would be stealing a camera that will film it’s own theft and upload the footage on it’s way out.
Additionally, these devices aren’t exactly expensive anymore, not a whole lot of value in stealing them. Even if stolen, not a huge setback to buy another one.
