Enlighten us! Most important popular culture event the last 200 years

[Lumpy]

@JohnT

In terms of "what is the most important thing to happen to pop culture in the past 200 years that is not an actual pop culture ‘event’ ", I vote for the application of electricity to art. All forms that could take advantage of the new technology (not to mention new art forms like motion pictures) succeeded wildly in the past 200 years, those that couldn’t (say, sculpture) have faded. They haven’t died, of course, but art forms that do not use electricity (or can’t be recorded) are ignored by the masses.

No one’s invented an electric chisel?

[JohnT]

Yuck-yuck. Of course, part of what I’m referring to is the ability to mass-produce enough of an item for it to gain a wide audience - something that’s a lot easier to do with recorded music than hand-sculpted marble, for example.