Oh man. I think you’re going to have to give up on the idea that Steve is ever going to be fully caught up to the modern world, unless he has years to devote to the project. Best bet would be to get some of those 20th century retrospective works that were produced around the turn of the century and get him started on those.
I’ve been alive exactly 3 months longer than Steve, but not (totally) frozen.
Steve, chill. Nothing important has happened. Except:
The Cold War
The Beatles
Viet Nam
The moon landings
Martin Luthor King and Barack Obama
Women’s and Gay Liberation
AIDS
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Digital music and movies
Computers
9/11
Other than these things, you can pretty much go back to sleep.
Chances are he hasn’t had pizza. So get him a pie, delivered.
I think he would find a copy of Alex Comfort’s The Joy of Sex instructive, and useful, on several levels.
Just send him to YouPorn dot com. "Here Steve, anything you want, from the amateur to the professional, catering to a wide variety of tastes, is available instantly, for free, in the privacy of your own home. But don’t click those WANT TO FUCK TONIGHT??! pop-up ads. They’re a scam."
It would be the equivalent of freezing him in ice for another 70 years. He’d never leave his room.
Pretty sure they had sex before 1945.
You forgot the entire history of television.
He has, however, had fondue and schawarma.
Pretty sure Steve hasn’t.
Play Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”
Ooh ooh ooh!
National Geographic mags.
I strongly suspect that Steve was more than just a little friendly with at least some of those long-legged USO dancers during his stint as a publicity focus.
Oh wait!
How about a library card?
My parents did . . . twice.
You send him to read Jack Kirby Sandman? Really? I suspect even Jack Kirby fans forget about that one!
You know, Steve’s workmates include a Russian, a transdimentional alien, and an introverted scientist who never leaves his lab except when he’s hiding in the Amazon jungle. Who exactly is making all these pop culture references that Steve doesn’t get, and how are they not used to working with people who don’t know American pop culture by now? I’ve worked with people from other countries before, and never felt frustration that they hadn’t seen the same tv shows growing up that I had.
Realistically, the frustration should go the other way. Steve should be baffled that otherwise intelligent people who apparently graduated high school somehow don’t recognize common references to Shakespeare or the Bible. To say nothing of the blank stares he keeps getting when he looks Nick square in the eye and intones, “You’re a ha-a-a-ard man, McGee!”
Absolutely. Then after he is nice and relaxed you break out the Breaking Bad CD’s.
He can work out step 2 on his own.
“Steve” doesn’t just need the facts of all the history he’s missed, and all the technology he’s leapfrogged into. He needs to understand the attitudes of the 2010s, and be able to live with them.
"Steve’ needs to learn how to behave and work around people that were not considered fully human by many 1940s folks: women, minorities, different religious groups, immigrants, gays, handicapped, and people he would consider mentally ill (folks on meds for depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc.). Maybe “Steve” is a super-polite guy who can deal with all the diversity that the 21st Century workplace has and the 1940s workplace didn’t. “Steve” may have a problem with, for example, homosexuals, but he can learn that one does not express such opinions in 2014 if one wants to stay employed.
It can be done - some people are more enlightened than others. One of my high schools teachers was a retired Navy CPO and a WWII veteran. He called every male “Sir” and every female “Miss” or “Ma’am”. He wanted to be polite and respectful to everyone. It’s a great attitude, and a habit I’ve adopted myself. OTOH, he fought in the Pacific and kept using the term “Japs”, so nobody’s perfect.
I would suggest that, in addition to books and movies and magazine articles on the various rights movements since WWII, Steve have semi-private, but supervised, discussions with selected minority individuals to hear their life stories. Something like Una Persson’s SDMB thread on her journey transitioning from male to female. I can’t help but be sympathetic when I read her thread, and I hope “Steve” would see it the same way.
I’d be concerned that “Steve” has had more that a few complaints sent up to HR. His supervisor “Nick” must be furious.
“Ok, if this is really 2014, show me a picture of the US president in 2014…”
If we’re talking simply events, wikipedia has articles for major events for years and decades, and this is further subdivided by category, e.g. the 70’s in the NFL, China in the 1980’s, etc.