USBC-PD and the rise of energy efficient dc appliances. the ability to to toss out ac power bricks and power most of my DC appliances with an electrical grid I wired together with solar panels and batteries. The sun powers most of my convinence and luxuries without burning fossil fuels.

24" TV, desktop vaporizer, video game console, laptop, and led lamp are all run from my offgrid dc electrical system and can use under 50 watts when all are on at once. I can process a load of laundry with a travel sized washer and spin dryer combo. I can brew a cup of coffee, I can get running water with a usb pump/shower head, I can run a small fridge, run a fan, I have a usb electric blanket/ heated jacket poncho that will sip on 10 watts of power and keep me warm on cold nights. If thats not enough I can get a jacket or blanket that runs on dewalt power tool batteries. Even charge a small electric bike.

I can do all of this with a cheap power station and 200w of solar. Just about the only modern convinences that are still hard to do on a 200w dc system is air conditioning(sadly seeming to be more a survival requirement in the coming years during summer) and cooking appliances. In those cases a tank of propane and dual fuel generator are great backup options especially if you can’t afford more solar and batteries to run a 1000+ watt appliance. Fortunately most 5000btu window units only consume 400-600 watts after startup surge or with soft starter so you dont need that much solar and batteries if you have a small space to be conditioned.

All of these things either weren’t possible or gave our ancestors a laborious manual workload 100 years ago. Most of these things required an industrial sized machine and or massive amounts of wattage 50 years ago. Now this is all possible with cheap affordable technological magic that sips power. Solar panels are getting cheaper and more efficent, and so is most consumer technology that power our lives. Its a shame that our generation and future generations will have to pay for the sins of our fossil fuel burning fathers but I am confident that more and more people will be moving towards more sustainable options especially as their homes/enviroments burn down from the ever increasing dry droughts and they are forced into being nomadic vandwellers.

Some of the job titles of people I know would sound insane to people in the 80s.

Bad news, tires are the biggest source of noise from cars in movement unless you change the exhaust to something barely legal on a gas car.

Home automation. I’ve only just get into relay but man, the ability to turn it on or off based on other devices status is just so futuristic for someone that love and still love simplicity and dumb device.

Also ebike. A motorized bicycle that use electric motor to run, doesn’t smell, quiet, and can assist me so my journey isn’t as exhausting? Where is this thing when i ride my bike 16km round trip to my school every day 20 years ago?

smartphones are pretty damn impressive.

they downright make scifi gizmos like dataslates, or comunicators seem outdated.

gps navigation arround the world,
even without cellula reception if you have offline data.
and automatic navigation / route planning

a vast array of communication services be it text sound, or video,
one on one, as a group, or in a public forum.

a vast sea of information on every topic immaginable.

ever improving camera & sensor tech.

and smartphones do it all in one device small enough to fit in your pocket.

and didn’t even mention the computing power & storage that oveshadows some room sized supercomputers of the past

Wait people like automatic bathroom fixtures?? Every time I go into a bathroom with them they make my life so much harder than it needs to be. Especially automatic toilets, those things are genuinely one of the most horrible things to ever be invented

Those fancy sinks you can’t fit your hands in and just splash water everywhere. We have peaked as a race, its all downhill now.

honestly just modern medicine and indoor plumbing/water treatment

the amount of not dying from random infections we do these days, no wonder there are so many humans

There’s an app for everything.
And everything requires an app.
It’s not a good future.

Everyone walking around with digital cameras

• We have video and photo evidence of nearly every single event because there are multiple people with cameras nearly everywhere there are people.

Global interconnection

• I can instantly communicate with someone in Germany from the US. I can even share a picture or video with someone in a matter of seconds.

Medicine

• Whenever I do something risky or worry about becoming sick or ill, I recognize how lucky I am that I can just go to a doctor and it will likely be addressed without issue. This goes especially for bacterial infections.

Modern ice trays.

Everything’s connected, there’s a vast collection of human knowledge available at a few clicks, smart homes, and the future is looking very hopeful!

Everyone spying on me, listening to everything I say and tracking everywhere I go.

That and instant pots. You just put in ingredients and out comes food. It also makes rice way better than you ever could on a stove.

My cellphone. Every day. Every time I’m at my computer and transfer a file to my phone over KDE Connect I kinda just sit there for a second marveling at the fact that the transfer happened and it just feels like magic.

I understand the underlying processes that make it happen, just sometimes I find myself ignoring the details and just appreciating it for a moment.

Zoom meetings