I remember Betamax video's ugly big things, the competition between those and VHS -and the first mass produced mobile phones massive great things....
when I started work there were hardly to no computers we had a microfisch (anyone recall those)
I also recall being over the moon to receive an electric typewritter as a main Christmas present....I was about 12/13 or so....
Yes medical advances remember the first test tube baby Louise Brown, yet now we think nothing of IVF and the like.
I recall my sister goinginto hospital for her appendix out she was about 10 and she was in for about 10-14 days now she would be lucky to be in 12-14 hours...amazing.