If it could stay just one year technologically forever...

[mr_fixer]

Dear Chris, Don't say that! because one day it will. It might be peak oil, total collapse of the artificial American economy or China's attempt to become the world's #1 superpower. I will bet sometime within the next 50 years we will go through another dark ages. look up a writer on the web called James Howard Kunstler.

[peverett]

1955? With all of the rampant condoned racisim in the country, especially the old south? Also if the McCarthyism was not still going on, it had not been too long. Not my choice for sure. I do like working on TVs from that period though(unless they have the yokes with the plastic that falls apart).

We could be like the Amish who have chosen to kind of remain at one technological year(1880 something, I think). I say kind of, as they have been seen wearing tennis shoes(not around in the 1880s) and will ride in automobiles(but will not own one).

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by mr_fixer

Dear Chris, Don't say that! because one day it will. It might be peak oil, total collapse of the artificial American economy or China's attempt to become the world's #1 superpower. I will bet sometime within the next 50 years we will go through another dark ages. look up a writer on the web called James Howard Kunstler.

Thanks, mr_fixer. I looked up Kunstler, and while he has some very valid points, I believe that new technology is precisely what will head off any collapse of economies, American or other. Technical stuff is my biggest hobby (and career as well) specifically because I see it as the one area that gets better (in most ways) all the time: higher performance, lower cost, more versatile, safer, etc.

If I had to pick a year's technology to live with for the rest of my life, I think maybe 2712 could be a good one.