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If a time traveler arrived here from the year 1814, what would they find most shocking about the world today?

If you take the Internet off the table, I think how fat everybody is would blow them away.

 
your ability to tell him to tell his descendants to buy lots of GOOG

 
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If a time traveler arrived here from the year 1814, what would they find most shocking about the world today?

If you take the Internet off the table, I think how fat everybody is would blow them away.
Probably how old everyone is.

1500 - 1800 A.D. From the 1500s to around the year 1800, life expectancy throughout Europe hovered between the ages of 30 and 40.
 
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If a time traveler arrived here from the year 1814, what would they find most shocking about the world today?

If you take the Internet off the table, I think how fat everybody is would blow them away.
Probably how old everyone is.

1500 - 1800 A.D. From the 1500s to around the year 1800, life expectancy throughout Europe hovered between the ages of 30 and 40.
That is a very misleading statistic. The average life expectancy was that low mainly due to a very high infant/child mortality rate.

 
If a time traveler arrived here from the year 1814, what would they find most shocking about the world today?

If you take the Internet off the table, I think how fat everybody is would blow them away.
Probably how old everyone is.

1500 - 1800 A.D. From the 1500s to around the year 1800, life expectancy throughout Europe hovered between the ages of 30 and 40.
That is a very misleading statistic. The average life expectancy was that low mainly due to a very high infant/child mortality rate.
Really good point.

Tried finding an updated number and it's messy. Seems like maybe 58-60 or so if you made it through childhood, but that's for 1850 so probably a bit less.

 
If a time traveler arrived here from the year 1814, what would they find most shocking about the world today?

If you take the Internet off the table, I think how fat everybody is would blow them away.
Probably how old everyone is.

1500 - 1800 A.D. From the 1500s to around the year 1800, life expectancy throughout Europe hovered between the ages of 30 and 40.
That is a very misleading statistic. The average life expectancy was that low mainly due to a very high infant/child mortality rate.
Do we have a way to tell what the median life expectancy was of adults(those over the age of 20)?

 
Advances in medicine. Diseases that were fatal then are easily cured now. If a man from 2014 went to 2214 and found out cancer was no more it would blow his mind.

If someone went from now to 2214 I think besides advances in medicine people would be blown away by transportation upgrades. Coast to coast in seconds.

 
If a time traveler arrived here from the year 1814, what would they find most shocking about the world today?

If you take the Internet off the table, I think how fat everybody is would blow them away.
Probably how old everyone is.

1500 - 1800 A.D. From the 1500s to around the year 1800, life expectancy throughout Europe hovered between the ages of 30 and 40.
That is a very misleading statistic. The average life expectancy was that low mainly due to a very high infant/child mortality rate.
Do we have a way to tell what the median life expectancy was of adults(those over the age of 20)?
I don't think they had median back then.
 
Electric anything, but especially guitars.

Tv/ movies

Anti biotics

Machine guns

Nuclear submarine

Sr-71 blackbird

32 gig flash drive

Sears tower

Disneyland

Cars

Modern mine

Women voting

 
Tossup between nuclear weapons and dinosaurs. Both would have a heavy shock factor because most people wouldn't even mention them at first.

Oh by the way, we have a bomb that can kill an entire city. We have enough of them to destroy the planet. Oh by the way there were these 50 foot tall lizards that lived on earth for 200 million years before humans.

 

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