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Imagine having a list of years (2010, 2009, 2008 etc etc) on a long strip of paper. Stick one point into "today", stretch the other point to a point in the past, then swing the first point arcweise past the second point and plant it in the same distance which divided your first two points. E.G., Popint One into 2010, Point Two into 2000, so you swing it backl and the point rests on 1990.
Now, compare the changes between now and the first retro date, then the changes vefore that.
2010 to 1980 to 1950...Now, IPOD and satellite stereo rules music. In 1980, CD's appeared to challenge the relatively new four track stereo cassettes, which were just overthrowing 8 track stereo cartridges, but stereo phonograph was still king. 1950: non-stereo "hi-fi" was new, and any tape was two-track big reel to reel. In fact, the tape was acetate, not mylar, so it was prone to disintegrate or even burn.
Now: what's new and big and burning in EMS? Swing back to 1970: NHTSA is (re)formed from the Nat. Hwy. Safety Bureau, EMT's are about to be invented and released. Swing back forty years from that: beginings of WWII. Doctors made house calls, most babies were still delivered at home, fungal-originated (pencillin) antibiotics were nearly experimental and sulfa just getting out into general use as antibiotics.
Thoughts? What are the issues we will remember (well, you mght remember) in forty years? Has there been a "golden age" so far, "halcyon days"?
Now, compare the changes between now and the first retro date, then the changes vefore that.
2010 to 1980 to 1950...Now, IPOD and satellite stereo rules music. In 1980, CD's appeared to challenge the relatively new four track stereo cassettes, which were just overthrowing 8 track stereo cartridges, but stereo phonograph was still king. 1950: non-stereo "hi-fi" was new, and any tape was two-track big reel to reel. In fact, the tape was acetate, not mylar, so it was prone to disintegrate or even burn.
Now: what's new and big and burning in EMS? Swing back to 1970: NHTSA is (re)formed from the Nat. Hwy. Safety Bureau, EMT's are about to be invented and released. Swing back forty years from that: beginings of WWII. Doctors made house calls, most babies were still delivered at home, fungal-originated (pencillin) antibiotics were nearly experimental and sulfa just getting out into general use as antibiotics.
Thoughts? What are the issues we will remember (well, you mght remember) in forty years? Has there been a "golden age" so far, "halcyon days"?