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The most stylish and innovative new cars come from Chrysler
High school kids wear beepers and cell-phones as a fashion statement
Video games are hot, but Atari isn’t
Las Vegas is now a popular family vacation destination
The guy who made “Jaws” now rules Hollywood
Sexual revolutionaries aged into rigid puritans
Litigation has become the Great American Dream
Men are now objectified in the media as much as women; nearly naked men sell jeans, soda, and soap
Seven-year-old girls diet
“Powerful homosexual” is no longer an oxymoron
Castro is still running Cuba
Adults are intimidated by techno-blase children
Pakistani field hands plan their days around the satellite broadcast of a mediocre American TV show about lifeguards in bikinis
Jobs have been replaced by stints
The coolest channels on television is essentially nothing but commercials for record albums
Music from the seventies is now categorized as “lite” rock
There is a sexually transmitted disease that’s incurable and lethal
The world is more crowded but cleaner
Food is better, and fewer people are starving, but there are still lots of starving people
You can buy a ride on a Soviet MiG fighter plane in Florida
Apartheid is over
The Cold War is over
Africa is devolving into a real basket case
Leisure time is becoming nonexistent
Small, intense types of drugs have destroyed social order in the inner cities
Buy a stock called Microsoft
Liberalism came and went
Gold kept its value
Computers have become friendly and omnipresent
Cars are rounder looking
Nobody worries about oil much these days
Graffiti is everywhere
The median income in America is still the same
Plastic surgery is almost mandatory in some professions
The US political agenda is being set by Idaho
The richest man in America is a computer nerd
You can’t smoke anywhere anymore
Everyone laughs at the way 1975 people dress
Wait until you read Andy Warhol’s diaries
Nazis are making a comeback in the US
Devices engineered to save time ended up making time even rarer than before
Per capita there is less war then ever before in history, but an overabundance of media makes it feel like there’s more
Entertainment is becoming the engine of the new world economic order
The Rolling Stones are still touring and they have their own credit card
Skyscrapers and highways are no longer built in North America
Vietnam is developing into a capitalist power
Your local Savings & Loan has probably failed
One of the largest entertainment companies is owned by Sony, another by Seagrams
John Travolta’s suit from Saturday Night Fever just sold for $800,000
People still haven’t figured out how to set the clocks on their VCR’s
Airbags and cupholders are the new metrics by which all cars are judged
Air travel is ridiculously popular, but supersonic air travel never really caught on
The expensive luxury automobile that customers are most happy with is Japanese
Amtrak is still around but nobody seems to know why
The US Postal service has released stamps commemorating Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe the presidency of Richard Nixon
Kids are killing other kids for their sneakers
One of the most popular TV shows involves following local police officers around as they arrest people
Volkswagen has brought back the Beetle
Long distance telephone companies spend more on television advertising than anybody else
You can buy anything in the former Soviet Union… anything: spacecraft, nuclear reactors, advanced military aircraft… anything
There is no Sears catalog and Sears has vacated the Sears Tower
