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And that's not all. During this period of time, color photography was known, but wasn't much of a product, and certainly wasn't "consumerized". Invented, but not available.
As a result, the information and perception of many decades of time are B+W.
Today, technologies are pretty much mined for every possible consumer use. We're gonna have the internet on our cell phone, and spray cheese, and high-tech glues in our sneakers.
Technology being everywhere, it's sometimes hard to understand the impact of it. But now we see: several decades of great-grandmothers are not remembered in color, several armies of men die while bleeding blood that appears black. There is a haze over our understanding of them as a people.
The Unabomber's anti-tech ranting breaks down once technology helps us to understand ourselves and humanity and our world.
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