Problem: a lot of those items/techniques were exclusively available to the very rich in 1915.
The UK still had slums with limited indoor plumbing during the 1950s. It wasn't until the slum clearances of the 1960s that the standard became an indoor bathroom in a house with central heating.
The big change between 1915 and 2015 is that the technological GINI coefficient has shrunk so much.
Being rich gets you few technological perks. You can buy a supercar or a private jet, but that's a difference of degree, not a difference in absolute access.
Most people have cars, and almost everyone can afford to fly. And all but the very poorest have Internet and electronic media access.
Likewise for cultural differences. Sexual morality - at least as publicly presented - is completely different now.
Work culture is somewhat different. Politics and finance have probably changed least of all.
The point being that someone from 1915 may just about be able to understand the Internet and computing. But they're going to have a really tough time learning how to parse Buzzfeed or TechCrunch or Reddit. Never mind what happens when they find PornHub or Tinder.
There are three things to learn, not one. The first is what the technology does. The second is the vocabulary of new names and the new concepts used to describe. The last is the social scripting that defines appropriate and inappropriate behaviour.
Those last two will take longest and be hardest.
I'd expect similar challenges in 2115, with the difference that there's likely to be much more social and political change, and not less.
It would surprise me if the definition of "human" hadn't changed fundamentally by then, together with almost everything we think we know today about culture, politics, and economics.
The UK still had slums with limited indoor plumbing during the 1950s. It wasn't until the slum clearances of the 1960s that the standard became an indoor bathroom in a house with central heating.
The big change between 1915 and 2015 is that the technological GINI coefficient has shrunk so much.
Being rich gets you few technological perks. You can buy a supercar or a private jet, but that's a difference of degree, not a difference in absolute access.
Most people have cars, and almost everyone can afford to fly. And all but the very poorest have Internet and electronic media access.
Likewise for cultural differences. Sexual morality - at least as publicly presented - is completely different now.
Work culture is somewhat different. Politics and finance have probably changed least of all.
The point being that someone from 1915 may just about be able to understand the Internet and computing. But they're going to have a really tough time learning how to parse Buzzfeed or TechCrunch or Reddit. Never mind what happens when they find PornHub or Tinder.
There are three things to learn, not one. The first is what the technology does. The second is the vocabulary of new names and the new concepts used to describe. The last is the social scripting that defines appropriate and inappropriate behaviour.
Those last two will take longest and be hardest.
I'd expect similar challenges in 2115, with the difference that there's likely to be much more social and political change, and not less.
It would surprise me if the definition of "human" hadn't changed fundamentally by then, together with almost everything we think we know today about culture, politics, and economics.