Quite a lot has happened in the last hundred years, even in terms of technological progress, to narrow it down a bit.
Progress does not mean obsolescence, it means that things that have gone are replaced by something new, and an industry flourishes, new professions and jobs are created. Innovation brings prosperity to those who dare to venture into the unknown.
The 14 then and now shots from brightside.me show, for example, how people travelled great distances 100 years ago and today.
Cheap horses and expensive cars
Cheap cars and expensive horses
Dangerous game for daredevils
Comfortable and safe travel
For international calls you had to rent a phone booth
International meeting from home office
Most people were under fifty
Life begins after 50
The discovery of penicillin ushered in the age of antibiotics
With the rise of 3D printing of internal organs, we are living in the age of genetic manipulation
Alternating current is Tesla’s dangerous toy
The foundation of modern metropolitan life
Boric acid baths once a week
Hundreds of thousands of daily showers and cosmetics
London-New York in 5 days
Same in 6 hours
A song on a vinyl record
All the music in the world in one tiny instrument
Gas oil is available in shops and drugstores
Solar energy and the age of batteries
John Rockefeller
Richard Branson and 1809 other billionaires
Children can work, the upper classes can learn
Exploitation of children is banned, education for all
Swimwear fashion then
And now
100 years ago
And now
