Didge Doo

Which historical era -- from 2016 all the way back to antiquity -- do you think was the best time to be alive? Why?

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Yin And Yang Profile
Yin And Yang answered

I always like the now! :0)

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Wise! A guy named Paddy Pallin (he was Australian, not Irish) once said, "The best place to be is here; the best time to be here is now." I never felt the need to argue with him.
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otis campbell answered

Roght after wwtwo here in america jobs cars suburbia

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Good selection! It was pretty good here, too, especially after 1950. I got my first job in 1952 and I could have chosen where i wanted to go. It didn't last, of course, but it was a solid time for workers.
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Jann Nikka answered

2000-2016 Lots of information technology.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
I like that too, Jan. It's so much a part of our lives now that I've come to take it for granted. Yet before the late 1980s Everyman's IT scarcely existed. You practically had to be a high priest in the new religion to understand how to make it all work.
Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
Yep
Tris Fray Potter Profile

I like now, with all these scientific advances in Quantum mechanics and Mathematics and everything.  It would have also been cool to live in the turn of the 1900's because you would be able to watch a new era of science unfold without all these fancy computer programs, just pure knowledge and logic and wit.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Good points Tris. I've been around since 1930s. It has felt just the way you described. My only regret is that I won't be around for the next 50 years to see what happens now.
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Tom Jackson answered

In retrospect, I remember thinking in my 20's (late sixties, early 70's) that it was a great time to be alive.

Water drills for use in dentistry had come about (a personal favorite) and the magazine Popular Mechanics promised wondrous things.

And since then, whenever I have thought about it, I've always thought that "now" has gotten better every year in terms of technology and multiple other areas.

Of course, in every era, some humans try their best to return to the caveman way of doing things, but I guess we'll always have that.

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Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
No doubt future generations will look back at us and think about how primitive we were but, yeah, there have been so many exciting developments in our lifetimes. Including dentists' drills. :-/

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