Hey Zoinkers! I’ve been thinking about how crazy the world is today versus how it was in the 1970s. Things have changed more than I could ever have imagined. As a matter of fact I decided to imagine several years ago what things about today would I not have believed back in the 70s.
I wrote a list of 100 things on my old blog but decided to update the list and reduce it to 50 facts that would have been hard to believe.
If someone from 2025 had traveled back to 1977 and sat me down to tell me these 50 things I most likely would not have believed a word they said. There are maybe a couple of things on this list that probably would have made since at some point but some of these would have blown my mind.
Before you read this list you have to put yourself in the mindset that you are living in the 1970s and have no idea about the future. Have fun!
1.) Saturday morning cartoons have been eliminated from network TV channels.
2.) Dodgeball becomes a popular movie but is rarely played in schools.
3.) TV’s equipped with remote controls becomes standard, dials all but disappear.
4.) Old faded blue jeans with holes are now vogue and bring top dollar.
5.) Bruce Jenner, “World’s Greatest Athlete”, becomes a woman.
6.) Painting racing numbers on turtles is animal cruelty.
7.) Shag carpet, yellow kitchens and pink bathrooms lowering the value of homes.
8.) Members of KISS play a concert and sit down for interview with no makeup.
9.) Kids are buying water in a bottle, avoiding garden hoses and drinking fountains.
10.) Elvis’s daughter marries the singer of The Jackson 5.
11.) Old rusty metal lunch boxes on sale for $100 without a thermos.
12.) Photographs are being developed in a split second but are never printed.
13.) Parents track kids every move and text when dinner is ready.
14.) People work, get paid, deposit money, buy things but never have cash.
15.) Kids that took computer class are now tech billionaires.
16.) Harvest Gold and Avocado Green kitchens have been replaced by White and Black.
17.) Kid performs Evel Knievel style jumps upside down while spinning backwards.
18.) People carry phones in their back pockets, phone cords no longer exist.
19.) Bill Cosby from Fat Albert was sent to prison for sexual assault.
20.) Kids no longer play “Cowboys and Native Americans”.
21.) Sonny and Cher’s daughter officially becomes a boy.
22.) There is always a human living in space, but man hasn’t walked on the moon since 1972.
23.) The majority of modern TV’s are hung on the wall.
24.) A drop of DNA tells you how many unknown siblings you really have.
25.) While letters can take days to deliver, packages are now delivered overnight.
26.) Speed limits on highways in some states range from 75 to 80 mph.
27.) People don’t smoke in schools, restaurants or on airplanes.
28.) You have to be searched and take your shoes off to board an airplane.
29.) Long distance calls are unlimited and pay phones cannot be found.
30.) The predicted “global cooling” and “imminent” ice age did not happen.
31.) OJ Simpson was accused of murder in the trial of the century.
32.) Kids are required by law to wear seat belts in the back seat of a car.
33.) On average, people spend 42% of their waking hours looking at a phone screen.
34.) 70s bands still play concerts but have no original members.
35.) Records, 8-Tracks and cassettes all disappeared. Only records have returned.
36.) You can buy weed in many states on almost every corner legally.
37.) TV’s have hundreds of channels but there’s sometimes nothing to watch.
38.) The World Trade Center Twin Towers were destroyed by commercial airplanes.
39.) American Bandstand is gone so you watch people dance on your smart phone.
40.) Cars don’t fly but they drive and park themselves and run on batteries.
41.) Danny Bonaduce got buff and started beating people up.
42.) A website on the Internet replaced every encyclopedia and dictionary on earth.
43.) You can get fast food delivered to your house… by a flying drone.
44.) Dick Tracy’s watch actually became a real device.
45.) Devices tell you exactly where to drive to find a location.
46.) Teenagers make millions of dollars creating dancing videos.
47.) Blockbuster movie releases can now be watched on your phone or at home.
48.) You can track the exact location of an approaching storm on your phone.
49.) People sit in long lines in their cars waiting on cups of $6 coffee.
50.) A rover was landed on Mars and it sends continuous photos back to earth.
These are the things I never would have predicted back in the 70′s. Makes you wonder what 50 things will happen in the next 30 years that we’d never believe!
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