What a Great Time to Live...

It's an amazing time to live right now. Technology advances at a phenomenal rate. Just in my lifetime I have seen incredible advances. Consider these that have happened since I was born in 1962:

• Color Television
• 8-Track Tapes (Come and Gone)
• VHS and Beta (Come and Gone)
• Touch Tone Telephones
• Cable TV
• Astronauts in Space & then to the Moon
• Video Games (Starting with Pong)
• Diet Drinks
• Pocket Calculators
• Artificial Sweeteners.
• Butter was really good for you, then really bad, and now it's really good for you again.
• The Oat Bran Craze.
• Tie-Died Shirts
• Personal Computers
• Dial-Up Modems & Bulletin Boards
• The Internet
• Leisure Suits
• The 3-Point Line in Basketball
• Gasoline going from .25 a gallon to almost $5 a gallon.
• The scourge that is the "Political Correctness" movement.
• John F. Kennedy was Assassinated.
• Martin Luther King Jr. was Assassinated.
• Robert Kennedy was Assassinated.
• Ronald Reagan was shot but survived.
• Prince made a lot of really bad music (unfortunately nobody shot him :) )
• Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson were the original tough guys not to mess with.
• Horror movies abandoned suspense in favor of gore and smut.
• Elvis died.
• Michael Jordan rose to the pinnacle of professional sports and slowly disappeared after retirement.
• The Oilers left Houston (I shall never forgive them for this). I stopped watching the NFL after that.
• The Rockets won the NBA Title, twice.
• Braniff Airlines went out of business, twice.
• Pan-Am, Eastern, and Western Airlines went out of business.
• The Priesthood Broadcast of General Conference was no longer an audio feed over the phone line.
• We could actually watch all the sessions of General Conference at the chapel on satelite instead of just one session tape-delayed on Sunday.
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