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How technology changed the sense of community in neighborhoods.
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1917
3 out of 5 lived in small towns that were growing, because of this neighborhoods were beginning to form. Instead of houses being miles apart and people only knew their neighbors a house down from them, to people being able to have relationships with everyone on their street. "They [neighborhoods] can be the birth place of a new middle calss as many of American immigrant neighborhoods have been"
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1917
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1927
The car gave people the opportunity to go outside their neighborhoods in order to have fun or interact with other people. Meaning that the relationships between neighbors would become considerably weaker. ”Almost every family had at least a car but it wasn’t used all the time.” -Luis Medina -
1927
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1935
Due to the war men were separated from their families and homes as they were drafted to go to war. “In Poland we started to live in fear, fear of Germany. My father and mother had told patrick and I that we would be ok, that we could not be conquered. But that all changed after the Nazi victory of Warsaw.” -
1935
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1945
The TV entertained people within their home thus there was no longer a need to go out for fun. “TV took us by storm, we would sit behind our sets looking into the abyss that was TV” -Roger Nevin -
1945
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1955
The telephone gave people the choice to call anyone in the comfort of their own homes. Instead of going to someone's house to speak with them face to face. “Once on the sea I felt liberated. As an age of espionage and secrecy would now envelope my life. ” Donald J. McCabe. -
1955
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1965
During the cold war a way to get children off of worrying from total atomic annihilation was cartoons. On saturday’s children would crowd around a TV and watch the flintstones, the jetsons, and the all time classic Rocky and Bullwinkle. Rocky and Bullwinkle made fun of the Russians and showed heroism of America prevails over all. “On Saturday we would stay inside our homes and watch the new cartoons. It was great to have humor during the cold war”- Scott Nevin -
1965
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1975
Cars packed the streets and the realization of necessity of an automobile started to show themselves in the American way of life. “When I was a kid, we need our car to get anywhere as the way of life had greatly changed, since now cars are ubiquitous to life we are truly done for ”- Scott Nevin -
1975
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1985
With the computer, tasks that would take much longer to understand or create could be done in seconds. New languages were invented to communicate with computers, like Java, C++, C#, HTML, SQL and many others. “Suddenly being outside and playing with other kids seemed like a chore. Being able to stay inside and enjoy a fun interactable film made going outside or interacting with others meaningless.”- Scott Nevin -
1985
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1995
The internet became a thing and the computer is at this point no longer a tool to work but also a tool used for entertainment. “my friends and I from the same street would get together and play games outside or talk” -Pablo Avaloz -
1995
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2005
Video games can immerse people into vast areas to explore and pursue new actions you could never do in reality. “Back in my day we didn’t have any electronic games. It was all mechanical games like the yoyo, spinning top and marbles.” -Pablo Avaloz -
2005
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2015
As social media continues to grow more and more, people are no longer interacting with each other face to face. ”I fear the day technology will surpass the need of human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”- Albert Einstein -
2015
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