Hey Dad, Check This Out!

My father died a long time ago, when we were both too young.
I though it would be cool to update him on what he's missed all these years.

• Bag phones, beam me up Scotty phones, and tiny flat phones. Walkie-talkie private phones. More horsepower in the phone than the first personal pc's and the computer on the Apollo space missions. Personal computers with hard drives under fridge size. Instant communication, like a 'Dick Tracy wristwatch.'  Roswell's fiber optics, integrated circuits, and night vision. Digital electric alarm clocks. 
• The internet as we know it. The ability to text, talk, send pics, look at dirty pics, and suck up information in no time at all, in your hand and in your house. Sometimes in your car.
• Autonomous cars - that I wish we didn't have to see either. Ridiculously high-powered car stereos, measured in decibels instead of watts. Never replace spark plugs. No rotatable distributors. Unleaded gas. Digital stereos playing AM stereo (for a while), FM stereo, 8 track cassettes, cassettes, ELcassettes, songs from non-connected phones and memory sticks.
• Much better medical knowledge, at ridiculous prices. Much more sophisticated diagnostic machinery. Chiropractors (?), Eastern medicine, and better medicines (horribly expensive and too frequently used recreationally). 
• An incredibly rapid news cycle. Finding out about political scandals via news. Then going back to being covered up by news. The discovery that the Military Industrial Complex is actually running things. 
• Shopping for everything locally, then online.  24/7 stores.
• Complete disregard for manners, customs, feelings, and one's parents. Warehouses for old people.
• Amateur radio, using the same equipment designed and built before your own birth.
• My phenomenal guitar and amp collection. My less than phenomenal playing. Being crowned CEO of Sarcasm.
• Unprecedented governmental and corporate spying. Unprecedented tax and spend.
• Homosexuality and sex-changes out in the open, sometimes celebrated. 'Ass' and 'shit' are ok on tv, but still no 'fuck'. Publicly admitted BJs and cigars not-smoked in the White House. 
• Expansion of The Stupid. Drooling, celebrity-obsessed idiots. Something from another planet called Kardashians.
• The realization that All is Not Well, like it is on tv. The end of innocence.

On the other hand, most of us never got to see

• turntables in cars. Cars the size of two current cars. Suicide doors. 400+ CID 8 cylinder engines, 'straight eight' cylinder engines, leaded gas, people pumping gas for you, waiting for your car stereo and tv to warm up before you can use them,  Fins. Large amounts of chrome. Seats that fit a family comfortably. Legroom. Bench seats. Manual and pushbutton transmissions. Having to slam huge metal doors. No seatbelts at all. Real wood on Woodys. Full service gas stations with window cleaning, fluid check, and replacement.
• Paying cash for a doctor visit. The doctor coming to your house.
• Newspapers. Milk and potato chip home delivery. 
• Salespeople who knew you and 'put it on your tab', then sent it to you.
• Happily living close to your parents.
• Really really bad 'solid state' stereos and guitar amplifiers (ok, that continues).
• Comics being funny without expletives.

We miss you, fella.