>>11342222Almost all the world's knowledge is available for free to anyone on the internet
Everyone knows where and when they are (GPS)
Smart phones means we can communicate with anyone at anytime, take pictures and movies and view pictures and movies, have the internet permanently available and play games for entertainment.
Shipping containers and world wide shipping allows anyone in a first world nation to eat almost any fresh fruit of vegetable year round
Etc, Etc,
We are FAR more advanced (in SOME ways) than any science fiction writer of old ever imagined.
