Is life perhaps unreal, considering what is technically possible in today's world compared to 100 years ago?

100 years ago there was hardly any technology. There was no internet, no radio, etc. It's surreal how fast technological progress has developed. Does it feel surreal?

If you, for example, How the Neanderthals would live 10,000 years ago, how would you build a car or a laptop or a smartphone? You did not have anything back then, but somehow the internet, electricity, smartphones, cars etc. Were built. That's all weird.

A sufficiently advanced technology can no longer be distinguished from sorcery.

Arthur C. Clarke (born 1917), British science fiction author

Find everything too exaggerated and have the feeling that it harms humanity. Older people in particular fall through because they no longer mentally come along.
Somehow everything is designed only for consumption and short life. Find that scary too.

Appeal your honor: older.bin 70 use laptop and smartphone and it is up to the individual whether he cares or whether he cares

That would be new to me that there was no technology in 1919, on the contrary, it was a time when there was technically significant progress. There were cars, railroad, telephone etc.

However, considering only the development of the Internet or the development of communication devices as progress, one should ask oneself how little one is still able to develop mentally today.

In addition, the Neanderthals occurred in the time 230,000 years ago to about 30,000 years ago and not 10,000 years ago. None of your enumerated achievements is in any way important to survive.

Your question is also not properly understood, where does your assumption the Internet, electricity, smartphones and cars so much vitality is.

What do you mean when the Internet was created / developed?

That can forget about the neanderthal to the internet, electricity, etc. The whole must be done step by step with the knowledge of the technology. First come the simple hand tools and then we go on with improvements

Very big mistake, many of today's "elders" have the stages of development, e.g. The computer technology witnessed and the phases are gone through with.

I would not be so brave as to say that the older one can't come anymore.

The internet has been around since the early 90s.

Almost, 1969

So I know many. Mostly 60+. But it's not just about being able to serve something, but about fixing bugs, since I'm often already in a fix, although I (still?) Good with technology.

Well, a friend gave his mother-in-law (then 80) a notebook, she could turn it on and use Facebook, because he explained it to her, but that's about it.

No, already the ancients were highly technologized, e.g. In Rome or in Greece, more than a thousand years ago, of lockable doors, huge ocean-going ships, window glass, metalwork, elevators, fabric making, non-motorized vehicles of all kinds, pottery, weapons of all kinds, heating of buildings with hot water and warm air, aqueducts including faucet and shut-off valve, Paper making, banks, post office, architecture, including cranes, paint manufacturing, sewing, astronomy, schools, medicine, carpentry, agriculture and and and. Alltogether inventions, which already in antiquity z.T. Already perfected. Thousands of years ago, people were already so sophisticated that your view of life used to be completely wrong. 1672 Otto von Guericke builds a machine for the production of cargoes, actually the cornerstones of the first generator and the steam engine 1690, they were the basic requirement that we had light bulbs, telephones, trains, Cars, computers, radio, Internet could invent. The people between 1600-1700 in Europe have thus created with their inventions and ideas catalysts that forcibly created some inventions.

But when you look at the world from the point of view of an electrical engineer, you think, why did we stop in the Middle Ages, why do I need a key to unlock my car or house, even a pin, a smartphone or a fingerprint? Why would I need physical money in 2019 or a plastic card to pay, if you could do anything with your smartphone or fingerprint or just a password? Instead, all the people on this planet are running around with their keys and wallets, although sooner or later it will be a discontinued model.

Seeing the differences, when I was still working, finding a job in many areas was part of my job and everyday

The idea of the Internet actually came into being with the development of the telephone in 1875. One wanted to send information over cables to someone else. Whether audio signal or digital text signal in the sense is not really an invention in itself, but an extension.

I see it a little differently…

to put it in the words of reinhard may:

… It works everywhere, even at the end of the world at night and power failure

the more complex such a system is, the more ways there are to overcome and the more possibilities of failure there are…

Therefore, cash (better gold) and a mechanical key probably will not die out so quickly. Sure, I agree with you, id systems and keyless entry or keyless go as smartphone paymont continue to spread but the classics will not die out.

A good old data cloud does not care if your house burns down. From RAID systems, to backups, to different storage media, e.g. Of course, a NAS, the ability to securely store your data, is not only available but also in use, or do you believe that a company like Google fills filing cabinets with paper somewhere? The problem is not the feasibility, but the lack of know-how of the masses in the field of hardware and software engineering. I'm not saying that there are only paperless offices within the next 10 years. I'm just saying that it's very medieval, for someone who is in IT and that eventually it needs to be implemented.

So if people in 200 years still shuffle all with a key and wallet through the street, then my disappointment would be great.