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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Demolition Man] How did society change so much in the 40-odd years Spartan spent in cryo-prision?

Seems like a pretty drastic change, really.
gpt
40 years prior to the beginning of the 21st century, ago jet aircraft were first generation. There was no internet, home computer, the only visual media was film, the only two audio media were magnetic tape and pressed records.

Cars did not come standard with air conditioning, seat belts, safety glass cruise control, power steering, or fuel injection.

I can go on, but you get the point. A lot can happen in 40 years. In the 40 years before the merger of the coast cities into San Angeles, a massive earthquake took away the City of Angels and replaced it with a destroyed lawless chaos. It did not take long for the US to allow Dr. Cocteau to try a new way to end the incredible wave of violence and hopefully return the region to some kind of economic prosperity.

Besides, the rest of the US healed from the great quake and grew and evolved in it's own way, most places not choosing quite the extreme path of Cocteau's tightly planned society. Those that wish to live a more contemporary American life can simply move north to Upper California, which is mostly the old state, pre-quake.

But yes, things can change mightily in 40 years. In fact, most of the device you're using right now, the forum you're using it to communicate, and all the totality of the various infrastructure, signals and transmission it consists of did not exist 40 years ago.

You must remember- human technology and society now moves at the speed of dreams. Not much is denied to us in the 21st century that we truly want or can dream of. The few things that are, we can actually see the path to, few things are completely out of reach anymore.

Imagine where we'll be at the beginning of the 22nd century. You may even live to see it.