...Если бы в 1969-м людей бы спросили как...

... If in 1969 people would be asked what the year 2013 would look like, they would probably say that there will be a base on the Moon, that we will send someone to fly to Mars, and maybe there will even be a base on Mars. That there will be space hotels in orbit, and in general there will be many cool things in space. People expected this by 2013. But if they were told that in 2013 the United States would not be able to send a person even into orbit, but then you will have a device in your pocket, about the size of a deck of cards. And from him there will be access to all the information of the world. And you can talk to anyone on planet Earth, even if you find yourself somewhere in a distant village, but there is such a thing as the Internet. Then the people of 1969 would not have understood what this all means. That you can contact anyone and have information from all over the world! They would say, “Lie more! This cannot be!” “But we have all this. But there is no space ...

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