How different is the world nowadays to how it was in say, 2000?

Vinyl, as LPs are now called, has enjoyed a big comeback. Stores which sell audio equipment have been doing a land office business in turntables. In the 60s, my grandmother commented that people had worn what we then called bell-bottoms in the 1920s. Everything old is new again . . .

If we could give a metaphor in years 200 years have past in the last 16...

Global problems in the world remained and even worsened. My world has changed significantly since I went to school in 2000. And now I have a higher education, church, family, children. A society in which I live use the Internet and technology, and has come during the phasing out of depending on the TV, the games in the phone.

Ouch! Thats where real world began for me...fewer big towers in NY. Politics was no longer a "who cares" issue after that. My sons baby book records the collapse of those towers...watching the news 12 hours a day. CNN never had bigger ratings. It was crazy, watching it live and not knowing why. I remember the Y2K fear, that computers would crash and that seems such a silly thing compared to 9/11 and the awful aftermath of it.