Things I would miss if I lived in the 1940s

• My iPod
• the Beatles
• ethnic food, especially middle eastern and thai
• Johnny Depp movies, and vibrators
  
• wimmen's lib
  
• the end of the Cold War
• microwaves
  
• Google, and vibrators
• polymerase chain reaction
• not being called a spinster
  
• PubMed and Web of Science
• laparoscopic surgery
• the HPV vaccine (I got dose #2 yesterday. I'm so responsible.)
• Long lasting batteries, and vibrators
  
• cell phones and digital cameras
• word processing
  
• President Barack Obama (and vibrators)