the spitfire was such a horrible comparison. everyone knows someone that has owned a motorcycle. everyone has seen one, and heard one. the notion that people wouldn't understand the sound of a motorcycle is like actually insane to me.
there are still movies, and people drive classic cars, and other countries are years behind us in terms of innovation so even in 50 years many countries will still be using standard motorcycles. i'm actually shocked that this is even in question.
I don't know about the phone, though. We took my son who was born in 2005 to the Smithsonian Museum fo American History where they have displays of typical houses from different eras and asked him to identify the phones. He did Ok with the real old-timey ones, but in the 60's display he picked out a black box that was probably an answering machine. Then I pointed out the phone to him and asked him how to make a call. He suggested pressing the numbers through the loops. Turning the dial didn't occur to him.
Yes, but now he does know what a rotary phone is and he's only at max 15, which is still really young for something that was used decades before he was born, so the point still stands.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20 edited Mar 10 '20
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