Octavio Roylance: They would be sickened by the way our girls have cheapened themselves into almost free prostitutes. They might like some of the music now. They would not believe the fashion scene. They would not believe the price of an entertainment event.
Branden Roddick: Someone from 1900 AD would probably like our source of entertainment. Or dislike it, depending on their personality.
Stevie Kizziar: They would be majorly freaked out, I suspect. Technology really leaped in the last 100 years, so much so that it progressed more in the last century than in the previous two millenia. But after the past people got over the shock, they might enjoy all the weird stuff we entertain ourselves with.
Mitsuko Manne: I agree with Adrienne that they would be 'freaked out'. Would they enjoy our entertainments? Some would. Some would not. Except for movies (which they had in 1900 - silent films and nickelodeons) and TV, your parents did not grow up with the! other things on your list, so we don't take them as much for granted as your generation seem to. They are still marvels to us - and frustrations at times - just like airplanes, radio, and the automobile and wireless telegraph were marvels and frustrations to our great grandparents. They got used to them, and some liked them. Some didn't.My grandfather (born 1888) would say (and did say when he was alive) that we rely too much on technology and enjoying ourselves and not enough on our moral fiber, saving money and doing a day's labour every day. Not that he didn't like radio, TV , planes and automobiles. He enjoyed them very much. But he thought we kids were living spoiled....Show more
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