If our grandparent's lives had been written up in the 1800s, it would have been considered complete science fiction, but even then the term "science fiction" had not yet been thought of. Someone (I'm not sure who) once wrote, "Truth is stranger than fiction". To understand and relate to the changing technological world, I like to think back to what it was like for our own grandparents. Maybe only then can we realize the extent of change for our future to come.
To realize much of what we take for granted today did not exist for our grandparent's. There were no cars; no planes, electric heat…