You can just say the 70s, people.
There is zero percent chance someone is gonna confuse it with 1870 and 2070 is 65 years away.
Edit: lol math sheesh 45 years I might be high
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As much as I wish it was still 2005, we must face the fact that it's 2025 and 2070 is only 45 years away.
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Imagine explaining in-vehicle-mounted devices which play sound recordings on giant vinyl discs to people from the 2030s.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/obsolete-car-audio-part-2/
The folks in this thread are misinterpreting the comment. It's not that someone from 1970 wouldn't understand the concept; it's that they would rightfully think that it's stupid and judge you for putting up with it.
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A couch with a power outlet baffles me
Might as well have it if your couch has electric adjustments anyway...
This is why my couch has two of those wireless charging spots on a fold-out middle console. It already has power because it's got two recliners built in, adding charging spots isn't very difficult.
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Batteries got good enough and electronics efficient enough that for a doorbell it makes more sense to use a battery than to run a dedicated 12v wire.
My dumb doorbell has a little coin battery.
My doorbell generates the necessary electricity when someone pushes the button.
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I couldn't be bothered to regulary take down my doorbell to charge it. I'd probably tell people to just text me, when they're at the door.
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Well, I realize that 1970s sounds like an age of dinosaurs to some people... But, people back then weren't cavemen. They had electricity, batteries, video cameras, telephones.
The concept of an electric outlet in a couch is easy - not sure, but they might even had such things back then. Like to feed a lamp or something. USB is just low voltage and different connector, from the power transmission perspective.
The concept of a speakerphone with video signal is also easy. The only thing to grasp is that the devices and batteries became that miniature and efficient. Oh, and wireless.
Explaining that all video and voice recordings from all these neat devices are actually stored by a gigantic corporation, processed with voice and face recognition algorithms, and used to enrich personal profiles collected on all parties of the conversation to boost profits of said corporations, and many people even pay for this - THAT I would find complicated to explain.
Yeah that part that's hard to explain to them is something I think many people don't understand now. It's very abstract.
XLR connectors and related systems have been around since the 50s. The precursors to USB, like ADB and PS/2, were being released commercially by the mid 80s. I agree that the concept would not have been mind blowing in the 70s.
Yep, it's the IoT aspect that would make their heads spin.
Mobile phones wouldnt be strange by the 70's. Two way handheld radios and car phones been around since the 40's and the first cellphone was demonstrated in 1973.
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Wait, you have to charge those Spyware doorbells?
Only if they're not hardwired in - lots of people where I live just stick them to their doors so there's no wires.
A couch that has an outlet integrated into it ain't as mind-blowing as you seem to think. In particular considering it is a low power outlet.
1970s is easy: the doorbell has a real small battery like in your car that can be recharged. It then has a built in radio to transmit a TV signal to a handle held computer/mainframe.
Couches have built in power for convenience.
JD's pager.
Even in the early 00s it was already hard to grasp for some folks. I had friends who called me a liar for claiming that I could charge my mp3 music player by slotting it in the USB port of my tower as opposed to swapping out AAA batteries
In the early 2000s??? Are you sure they weren’t just messing with you?
I'm not sure about the timeline on portable mp3 player development and popularity, but this was 2002 or 2003 and I was the only one in my friend group who had one with a li-ion battery as opposed to AAA-batteries.
"USB doesn't deliver power, it's for file transfer!" I was told. Some of my friends were also really stupid, though. That could have contributed to this wonder of technology.
Fair enough!
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When "Lithium Ion" sounded like something from Star Trek.