I think it’s odd to live in a time where we’re just past the peak of everything. In less then two decades, billionaires have stripped all progress, turned to warmongering, and ensured we will all suffer for their pissing contest. That said, luggage wheels are great.
I work in manufacturing. I know everyone loves to complain thst “they don’t make them like they used to” but in most cases things are made both better and cheaper, as well as much more safely for the people building them.
Televisions. The family used to have a 13″ CRT that weighed a ton and fried my retinas. Now I walk through a store and see 70″+ thin screens selling for a few tanks of gas.
When I was a kid, I constantly daydreamed about doing animation, and I was bitterly envious of kids on TV doing rubbish animations with 8mm film cameras. And now it’s so easy and cheap for young people to have a go. Not everyone has a smartphone or a laptop, but it’s SO much more accessible now.
When you travel to another country, the phone miraculously allows you to easily find your way around & translate foreign languages, including ones on signs
