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How Technology Changes Who You Are & The Nuts and Bolts of Making Friends

Something You Should Know

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The Pill and Electricity Changed Women's Life

Women were able to move into the work force in the latter decades of the twentieth century because of the pill. They could have sex before marriage, and they could have sex with people outside of marriage without having children or additional. Once you have washing machines and refrigerators and stoves, it's these technologies that enable women to imagine being able to do something outside of the house. You know, hit really captures my imagination when i was looking at this topic is, ok, so you take the washing machine, a fairly simple machine that fundamentally changes how people relate to each othernd, and the car, how carr changed romance and dating and everything.

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