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The Transformation of Everyday Life

            Effect of technology on 1900-to-1950 time-traveler.
            
             • The world filled with technological wonders.
            
             • Horse-drawn carriages now replaced by streets and highways jammed with cars, trucks and buses.
            
             • Skyscrapers and huge bridges.
            
             • Planes carrying people across the continent in a matter of hours.
            
             • Appliances powered by electricity such as radios, TVs, refrigerators, washing machines.
             Effect of technology on 1900-to-1950 time-traveler.
            
             • Not much difference: still drive a car, live in a suburban house, has TV.
            
             • Quick-to-learn appliances.
             Effect of social change on 1900-to-1950 time-traveler.
            
             • Not much difference: same factory and office environment. 8 or 9 am - 5 pm work schedule. Wear suit and tie. Most coworkers are white males. Very few women and nonwhites.
            
             • Marry young to the same person and work for the same company for the rest of life. Expects his children to do the same.
             Effect of social change on 1900-to-1950 time-traveler.
            
             • Big social and cultural changes.
            
             • New dress code, schedule, and rules. Office workers in high position dressed in jeans and open-necked shirts. Young workers might have piercings and tattoos.
            
             • Ethnic jokes become inappropriate.
            
             • Smoking and drinking in workplace is not tolerated.
             The Force Behind the Shift.
            
             • Two theories: 1) Some groups of society have imposed their values on the rest of us. 2) Our own inventions reshape us.
            
             • Both theories are wrong. Society is changing because we want it to. It is changing rationally and slowly.
            
             • The force behind the shift is the rise of human creativity.
            
             • Both in work and lives, creativity is more important than ever.
            
             • The winners in every industry are those who can create and keep creating.
            
             • Creativity is multidimensional.
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            


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