Five Years Ago

Half-Life 2: Episode One – How has it aged?

by exterminat

©2011 Nicholas Laborde

It may be said that every fifty years marks a noticeable advance in human knowledge and civilization.

What people dreamed of in 1961 can, for the most part, be accomplished or at least plausibly envisioned in 2011. The once luxurious, expensive computer is now a common household device that is beginning to be eclipsed by the rising advance of mobile phones. Automobiles are still expensive, but are much more efficient than they were back in the day.

The thing that makes the passage of time interesting is not the inventions we expected, but the ones we didn’t expect.

We went to the moon at the end of the 60s, and the entire human race thought we’d live there by 2000… well, we haven’t gone any further and probably will never go back (which, in my opinion, has led to the death of good science fiction).

What was it like way back then . . . .

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