# What's new since 1950? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-new-since-1950/637085 "2012-10-08T13:25:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-new-since-1950/637085/101 "2012-10-10T04:06:01Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Erm, is porn really that big a deal to the average human over the age of, say, 21? I mean, I know it’s there if I want it, but I can’t recall the last time I bothered to look for any. I don’t know, is **The idea that I’m not the only freak who feels this way** important to most people? Porn is part of that. The other part is discussions about sexuality that aren’t censored by the fact people can’t speak freely if their names are attached. But yes, really, pornography is a big deal if it means you discover you’re not just a weirdo, and that can happen at any age. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-new-since-1950/637085/102 "2012-10-10T05:41:30Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > The container ship. Invented in the 1950s, but didn’t take off for more than a decade. Allows us to have fresh fruit all year round and goods manufactured anywhere in the world for effectively zero shipping costs. It’s as ubiquitous and as important as the computer chip but almost unrecognized… Do you mean the 1955 intermodal container? It changed the world. McLean and Tantlinger. I think of them every time I pass a semi or a rail car or shipyard. Unsung, they are. ---
**Author:** ![Freakenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b782af/32.png) [@Freakenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freakenstein)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-new-since-1950/637085/103 "2012-10-10T08:07:28Z")
Almost all things today are so complicated that one man can’t do it from a scratch. They are all based on previous inventions and most of them are basically just adaptions or combinations. It’s like evolution. I think that if You choose a thousand years instead of just fifty, You still have mostly adaptions, which may have revolutionized thing, but still are just adaptions and combinations ( like Your examples. Even something so basic as a stirrup falls into this category. ) Edit: Uh, I wrote this before I realized there was actually third page going already ( I was just at the end of the first… ) ---
**Author:** ![dataguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dataguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dataguy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-new-since-1950/637085/104 "2012-10-10T20:01:54Z")
> [@Freakenstein](#): > > Almost all things today are so complicated that one man can’t do it from a scratch. My view is this increasing complexity is the opportunity for future geniuses to introduce something of mind-numbing simplicity that opens up whole new vistas. The equivalent of E=MC^2. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-new-since-1950/637085/105 "2012-10-10T20:30:20Z")
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