Culture Shock

>>1551842
Probably all the way back to the Bronze Age if you know how to talk and have physical proof.

You could show an iPhone to an educated Roman, and if you made sufficient reference to it being a machine, and compared it to greek fire or the devices of Archimedes, you could likely convince him it wasn't magic. Same story for the Middle Ages.

>>1551842
For technology, probably 40-60 years would best estimate.
50 years ago some were speculating about things that resemble the internet
80-100 years and modern tech seems borderline magic.
150-200 years and most things would be incomprehensible because the science behind them wasn't yet conceived

It also depends of what sort of tech. TV, VR or video games would seem like magic, but weapons and transportation might be easier to explain or at least they could make a gross analogy.

They might understand that assault rifles are somewhat like their firearms, only automatic.
Cars are like smaller trains, but without needing tracks and coal.

For culture, even for people 25 years ago it would seem like SciFi,
>black president of US
>all the pop-culture and music
>the internet memes

>>1551881
We have illustrations of how the 2000s would be from 115 years ago that describe shit like Skype, the internet, cellphones, etc. You could easily go back to 1916 and explain the current status quo.

>>1551881
>25 years ago
>black president is scifi

I would understand if you said 100 years ago but come on now

>>1552275
Not him, but are you fucking kidding? People were freaking the fuck out that a negro was running for President in 2008, let alone won the election. Black people being President not even 10 years ago was thought of as fantasy.

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>>1552287
>are you fucking kidding?

>>1551881
>hello and welcome to random bullshit

Yeah anon I bet someone in the 1800s would be unable to comprehend a fucking rocket, jet or computer. Do you know a single thing about the history of technological development and understandkng? Obviously not.

Just disregard your fucking post.

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>>1552298
>people are allow to kid you and you can't call them out on it anymore because of that meme

2000

>>1552287
Not even slightly, in the 90s everyone already thought it's bound to happen at some point.

>>1552298
>here is a silly picture of a person
>IN-FUCKING-VALIDATED

Has nothing to do with anything, but this is why political cartoons are such bullshit. The fact that it's been going on since the beginning of print is sad.

>>1551842
It depends on
a) how you approach them with the idea
b) who you're talking to

Even the lower classes of today understand advanced science in a way akin to magic. You'd have to be talking in a way that properly conveys the mechanisms and the intended function and use of the object. On top of that, you'd need to be talking to someone of learning that was at least somewhat open-minded.

>>1552303
>you're wrong but I won't tell you why. just act pretentious

>Yeah anon I bet someone in the 1800s would be unable to comprehend a fucking rocket, jet or computer

Except very few elite scientists and engineers, no they most certainly wouldn't. And the modern computer would indeed need a huge amount of explaining.
And no, knowledge 1810 isn't the same as the one from 1890.

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>>1551842
you know that native tribes exist, and they become aware of modern day technology withouth thinking we are madmen, right?

they would probably kill you for heresy

>>1551842
People in the 80s would've thought you're either making shit up or telling a story from star trek if you told them all the things smartphones can do

>>1552374
To be honest, explaining a computer wouldn't be too hard.
>Explain the structure of atoms very briefly
>Cover electricity
>Transistors, logical circuits, LEDs, you don't have to go into too much detail, but just explain what these things do.
>maybe talk about how HDDs work, people back then had a rough idea about magnetism already
It shouldn't be that hard to convey the contents of a high-school physics textbook to those people. They weren't dumb.

>>1552275
I don't think he was saying they'd think it impossible, just like how going to the moon was SciFi before the 1960s. A black president back then would be considered possible in theory, but some things would need to change or come about for it to happen.

Now the real problem wouldn't be a black president, but a half-black president with a single white mother.

>>1553323
>lead pipes

>>1552391
>encounter a civilization that could genocide you in a heartbeat
>call them madmen