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I would suggest creating a virtual flip book- this is sort of the new wave for creating engaging, image based content.In case you’re unfamiliar, flip books are a great way to share any kind of information in the form of a storytelling experience. Sales pitches, product reviews, guides, even classroom assignments that involve any amount of reporting, can be amplified through flip books. Traditionally, flip books have been used for creating life-like picture animated cartoons, but with the power of technology, they have transcended into an extremely powerful tool for marketing and professional purposes.Unlike those cartoon flip books you may have heard of, digital flip books allow companies to create beautiful, interactive displays about their products and services. In fact if you’ve ever been to a museum, many of the exhibits have virtual flip books that tell the story of an artifact, person, etc. Tap the arrow to see the next slide, swipe for next page, etc. With digital flip books (especially for marketing purposes), come several key benefits:Digital means they can be sent to anyone through the web.Real time ability to make updates, without needing to recreate an entire book.Staggered virtual “pages” means you can tell your audience a story, instead of throwing all of the information to them at once.If you’re still unclear on what a digital flip book looks like, have a look at this example of the Tesla Model S.The example above is from a company called Flip Booklets, and they’ve taken the next step in creating an easier path to virtual flip book creation, by allowing direct PDF uploads. Upload a PDF (minimize it first, if possible), and within seconds you’ll have an interactive flip book. By allowing PDF upload, Flip Booklets has simplified the process of creating these visual marketing tools 10-fold. For companies who already have PDF spreads of their investor pitch, sales pitch, or product walkthrough, a simple drag and drop will create a fully immersive flip book (though it might need some tweaking), and take your presentation value to the next level.How to create your own flip book from a PDFThe first step to creating a virtual flip book is to have a high quality PDF of your product or service, fully customized from front to back. Each page of the PDF should have clear information and graphic illustration, that leads readers to the next page, and so on. The PDF should be high quality and at least several pages, in order to give the flip book a richer experience. If your presentation is in a different format, there are plenty of ways to convert to PDF.Once your PDF is in top shape, head over to the Flip Booklets website, sign in/create your account and upload your PDF. After a quick upload, you’ll get a custom URL that opens up your flip book, as well as an embedded code, if you prefer to place the flip book on your own website.Unlike many other flip book services, Flip Booklets will stay optimized for any device size, preserving the experience for readers. Like standard PDF documents, zooming in and out (scaling) is preserved, so long as the assets in the PDF support scaling. Unlike scaling for social media graphics (for videos, etc), Flip Booklets will always make sure that the presentation is high quality and fits on any size screen.Flip Booklets has a completely free plan, with online flip book creation (no download needed) being their main service, but also additional upgrade options for the hardcore flip booker- such as embedding options, background customization, removed branding, and more. You can check out their pricing pagefor more info!ConclusionWith the majority of work being done from home these days, technological one-ups can really help a brand or company stand out. If you’ve got a user guide, product feature list, investor pitch or any other type of long-form, graphical content, consider turning it into a flip book. You might just flip some leads.Hope this helps!

Great question! There is so much useful information in books that can just about change absolutely everything in your life. As someone who loves books, I’m always searching for the next title to read, and I've read close to 1,000 books over the years.But, finding that life-changing, mind-expanding book is not easy. It means going beyond bestseller lists and your close network (your friends are likely to be people just like you. So, the books they recommend will likely not open you up to whole new worlds).Rather than just giving you a list of books to read, I wanted to take things a step further...To find unique approaches that work for finding these books, I spent over 40 hours interviewing top entrepreneurs who love reading and analyzed recommended book lists of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and other world-class leaders...9 Creative Ways To Find Books That Will Make You A Genius1) Read Book ListsCredit: Rory Cellan (Sheryl Sandberg), Elon Musk (Brian Sollis), Steve Jurveston (Steve Jobs), Bill Gates (Bill Gates), Chris Craymer (Oprah Winfrey), Steve Jurveston (Jeff Bezos)One of the best hacks for getting into the mind of a role model is to read the books that shaped his or her thinking. Fortunately, that information is readily available because many top entrepreneurs have shared their favorite books publicly.Austin Epperson and I researched and combined 50+ book lists of prominent entrepreneurs and executives like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and Elon Musk into one document of 460+ book recommendations. Then, we analyzed which books were recommended the most.Here are the top six:The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen, recommended by Andrew Grove, Evan Williams, Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Guy Kawasaki, Steve JobsThe Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, recommended by Whitney Tilson, Kevin Rose, Jamie Dimon, Warren BuffettBusiness Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks, recommended by Michael Dell, Warren Buffett, Bill GatesEinstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, recommended by Charlie Munger, Elon Musk, Bill GatesLife Is What You Make It by Peter Buffett, recommended by Bill Clinton, Ted Turner, Bill GatesThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, recommended by Larry King, Salman Khan, Bill GatesHave you read these yet? If not, it’s time to load up your Amazon shopping cart.To see the full document with all of the book recommendations along with why each executive recommended the book, visit my site.2) Read To Solve Problems You’re FacingRyan Simonetti, co-founder of Convene (Credit: Bobby Friedel)If you’re reading for business value, it’s important to think in advance about what problem you’re ‘hiring’ the book to solve. Just as you would carefully consider anyone you hire or seek professional advice from, so should it go with a book you want to gain business insight from.Ryan Simonetti, co-founder of Convene, which has 150+ employees, has a very specific process he uses when picking a book for business purposes. He asks himself three simple questions:What am I trying to learn or improve?Why is it so important to me?Why is this particular book (over an alternative) going to be the best resource to help me accomplish that goal?This problem solving approach led Simonetti to read The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz as he struggled with some tough questions surrounding the launch of a new business line, which was causing stress in the organization.“It was the perfect selection,” Simonetti said. “Absolutely incredible book by the way and a must read for any founder or venture capitalist investor.”3) Search For Great Chapters; Not Just Great BooksCameron Herold, author of Double Double, CEO coach, and globally renowned speaker (Credit: Cameron Herold)Similar to Simonetti, Cameron Herold, author of Double Double and a CEO coach to high-growth businesses, reads books that help him solve problems.Every 3-6 months, Herold considers all the core projects that he’s involved in, or is leading. Then he looks for books that will give him an edge and help him be successful in those projects.From there, he focuses like a laser beam on only the parts of the book that are relevant to his projects.“Business books are not novels. You do not have to read them from front to back,” Herold said.With this approach, instead of spending 10 hours reading a book, Cameron can spend 1 hour and get what he needs.To focus in on the most pertinent chapters or sections, you can use the skim before you read approach:Read the title page and preface to understand what the book is about.Look at the table of contents to get a sense of how the book is organized.Go to the index to see the topics in the book and the types of publications the writer cites.Flip through the book with an emphasis on chapter intros and conclusions to understand the main themes of the book.If provided, examine the writer’s summary of the book (often found in the back).4) Read Leadership MemoirsJessica Mah, founder and CEO of inDinero (Credit: Jason Henry for The New York Times)Winston Churchill famously stated, “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” Reading about historic business, military, social and political leaders from the US and across the world gives you a window into the past, and a better perspective on how historic leaders have shaped the world we live in now, and will live in the future. Furthermore, leadership memoirs are fun to read and give you insight into how to be a better leader.Jessica Mah, founder and CEO of Indinero, which has 140+ employees, focuses on reading memoirs of great leaders in many of the 100+ books she reads per year. Whenever a memoir she’s reading mentions another leader, she reads that other person’s memoir as well. In so doing, she understands how qualities of exceptional leaders stay the same and differ across time, place, and domain.Research from Stanford on how people develop expertise shows that this approach has a lot of merit. “Contrasting examples” helps you uncover deep underlying principles that you can apply across a wide variety of disciplines.5) Read Source MaterialNaval Ravikant, founder of AngelListSocial media can be a profound exchange of ideas – and incredibly useful when those ideas are actually true.However, many people repost things that sound true, but aren’t, before they’ve even read the actual content. Maybe you’re guilty of this yourself sometimes? I am.In this way, we are all playing a giant game of “telephone,” where a message is whispered from person to person and gets distorted along the way. The same happens in our society with ideas.Going back to source materials gives you a deeper and more accurate understanding of a topic.This is why Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList and one of the most respected technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, chooses to read source books.In a recent interview on the Tim Ferriss Show podcast, he shared that he had recently read Darwin’s The Origin Of Species to more fully grasp the theory of evolution.“[The theory of evolution] is my binding principle whenever I’m trying to explain any human action. People read all kinds of blog posts and tweets on evolution. Everyone has a loose understanding of how evolution works, but how many have actually read The Origin Of Species?” Ravikant said during the podcast.Source materials aren’t just about books that were written decades ago. According to the book, Outsiders, Warren Buffett has kept up a habit of reading 3 annual reports a day for his entire career. This way, instead of depending on other analysts, he can form his own independent opinion.To apply this strategy to your life, think about the foundational ideas that are part of your life and then look for the source book. For example, Democracy In America by Alexis de Tocqueville and The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith can help you understand democracy and capitalism.6) Read Old Books To Shed New Light On Old ProblemsJason Duff, founder and CEO of COMSTOR Outdoor (Credit: Jason Duff)Jason Duff, founder and CEO of multimillion dollar company COMSTOR Outdoor, loves finding old ideas that still work but have been forgotten, and applying them to his businesses. “Many people have a bias against ideas that are more than a few years old,” Duff said. “The assumption is that they are outdated. However, many extremely important ideas are timeless and books that have withstood the test of time are the best place to find them.”Similar to reading source materials, Ravikant, founder of AngelList, also sees the value in reading books from previous generations or eras because they have been vetted through millions of readers, and offer insights that may be overlooked by the current generation. Such books include those written by great philosophers, which look at age old problems and solutions, and still offer valid and compelling advice on how to live a good life.“If you’re talking about an old problem, like how to keep your body healthy, how to stay calm and peaceful of mind, what kinds of value systems are good, how should you raise your family…these kinds of things, the older solutions are probably better because they’ve withstood the test of time,” Ravikant said.7) Read Popular Books In Different FieldsFrans Johansson, founder of The Medici Group (Credit: Alicia Hansen)One of the fastest ways to come up with innovative ideas is to find best practices in other fields and be the first to bring it to yours. You can do this by reading books outside your field that are relevant to your industry.The challenge is that learning from another field is like learning a whole new language and culture. That’s why most people don’t do it.Frans Johansson, author of Medici Effect and founder of The Medici Group, recommends overcoming this challenge by picking up 5 popular books and magazines that cover different fields, and taking time to connect the different ideas, business models, and designs to whatever you’re working on right now.“Magazines are designed to cover topics in a way that a general audience will understand and find interesting, so they’re a great place to start,” Johansson said. “Starting with a niche academic journal can set you up for failure as you’d have to learn a whole new vocabulary first.”To find books from other fields, consider using the source book approach mentioned earlier in the article. These source books will give you a foundation in the field so reading more books becomes easier. Another approach is reading books in fields that intersect your own. For example, if your specialty is tech, it would be easier for you to jump into the field of biotech than it would be to jump into the field of manufacturing.This approach, also known as near transfer in the academic literature, works better for transferring concepts from one field to another than trying to jump into widely different fields.8) Utilize Amazon.com’s Recommendation Features In The Right WayEmerson Spartz, founder and CEO of Spartz Inc. (Credit: Emerson Spartz)Using Amazon.com’s “People Who Bought This Also Bought” feature is a great way to help you find books you’d never normally come across, advises Emerson Spartz, founder and CEO of Spartz Inc., a digital media company which owns Dose and OMG Facts and collectively has 50 million visitors per month.Spartz scrolls through the list of books in the “People Who Bought This Also Bought” feature, picks one that looks interesting, and then repeats the process again and again. He does this up to 50 times, often ending up with a book on a completely new subject.Spartz, who taught himself to speed read as a teenager and reads 100+ books per year, justifies the value of spending time on book research this way: “Most nonfiction books will take 5-12 hours to read, so if you spend 10 minutes on research to choose a book that is 3x as impactful on you, it’s the equivalent of reading 3x the number of books in the same time.”9) Find Great Curation BooksTom Walter, CEO of Tasty Catering (Credit: Edward Fox Photography)What makes a book relevant is not just its ideas; it’s how the ideas relate to your life, your business, and the world. Great curation books helps you contextualize and link many different ideas in ways that may not be immediately obvious otherwise.Tom Walter, CEO of award winning Tasty Catering ($7 M+ revenue) has a favorite curation book; Great Thinkers of the Western World: The Major Ideas and Classic Works of More Than 100 Outstanding Western Philosophers, Physical and Social Scientists, Psychologists, Religious Writers and Theologians.Good To Great, Outsiders, and Giants Of Enterprise are other examples of great works of curation. Book awards draw from a large, diverse pool of works as well, such as the annual Royal Society Winton Prize that recommends the best science books in that year. Maria Popova of Brain Pickings has done this for forgotten gems and classics that are still relevant today. Millions of people visit her blog every month to understand what she’s reading.I love books and have been quite passionate about building out this list. I've started implementing the process as well and now I have a neverending list of collections that I'm absolutely more than ready to absorb. I hope you find this collection useful in searching for the next book you want to read. If you have any other tips or insights on how to take advantage of finding the your next book, I'd love to hear them! Comment below!—Also, as a resource for this answer, I put together a 7-page report you can download at no cost. It took over 30 hours to find and comb through 60+ book lists of top entrepreneurs and CEOs to find which books have been recommended the most. I put it together because I personally was very interested in what the most recommended books were, and I thought you might be interested too.—This Quora answer is a modified version of an article I originally wrote for Forbes

I’ll write this like you’ve time traveled to the ‘80s, and are needing the lay of the land.The main thing that’s not much different is the clothes. What people wear in the ’80s is pretty much what people wear today.The first thing I think people will notice is that their digital technology is gone, and there’s no internet for them to access. There are electronic devices, but they’re mostly analog. Adults in their 40s and older will notice this as a backward step. People younger than that will be able to adapt somewhat, but their ability to do so will be worse the younger they are.There are only two ways to buy things. You either have to drive to a retail store, or you can buy it by mail order. How do you find out about mail order? You’ll get an ad in the mail, read about it in an ad in a newspaper, or magazine, or through an ad on TV. You call a toll-free 800 number in the ad, and you get a catalog free in the mail. After that, you pick out what you want by item number, and you can mail in an order form with a check, or money order, or you can write in your credit card information on the order form, and your order will be charged when your item(s) ships. It’s faster, though, to order over the phone. You can give the customer service rep. your credit card number over the phone, and place your order that way.For all practical purposes, no one has cell phones. They exist, but only the rich have them, and they’re huge.DVD wasn’t invented until 1999 or 2000, so the only video technology available, for all practical purposes, is VHS tape.There is Laserdisc, which is a digital video and analog audio technology, but it isn’t widely used. The discs are pretty large. I remember them being a bit larger in diameter than a vinyl record.TVs are much thicker. The thickness of the TV is proportional to how big the screen is. If you want a 30″ screen, or larger, all you can get is a projection system, which will run you a few thousand dollars plus, and you will need a large room to accommodate it.(When I was a teenager, we had cats, and they’d climb up on top of the TV to sit, or fall asleep. So nice and warm!)More people have cable TV in the late ’80s than in the early ‘80s. If you don’t have cable, all you have are VHF and UHF channels, which means there are 3 networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC), and PBS. That’s pretty much it. Depending on where you are, there might be a few local independent TV channels that are either on the VHF or UHF frequencies, and how good the reception is depends on your location, and how far away you are from the transmission towers. You might have to put up with some fuzz, and the occasional “screen flip.”The only way to get national/international news on TV (outside of cable) is at 6:00pm, for a half-hour (unless you watch the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour on PBS). It’s either that, or get one or more newspapers.There are compact discs, which are the ’80s version of digital music. In the early part of the decade, only the rich have them, because the players cost more than $700 each (equivalent to just over $2,000 today), but by the late ‘80s, they become more affordable. They’re only sold as stereo equipment.For most of the decade, people listen to cassette tapes for music.The Sony Walkman is the coolest music technology around, because for the first time it makes recorded music portable. You have to be fairly well-to-do to afford one of them, though, because they cost $200 each (when it first comes out in the early ‘80s. This is equivalent to $490 today).Most people have boomboxes, which are cheaper (under $100), larger portable players that are a combination of AM/FM radio and tape player, with built-in speakers.Blank tapes are how you can make your own music playlist (though many from my generation call them “mix tapes”). All boomboxes have the ability to record right off the radio. So, if your favorite ’80s song comes on, you can record it. The only thing that sucks is the DJ will talk over some of it. That’s the breaks.If you keep your boombox long enough, the tape player will start getting old, and will start munching on your tapes. Keep a pencil handy, and be prepared to replace the boombox with a new one.If you like really good audio, you have to get an amplifier, with a dedicated tape deck, and good speakers.What this means is in order to get studio quality recorded music, you have to drive to a music store, or order it by mail. Typically, you don’t get to listen to the music before you buy it. You have to know what you want, or just “feel lucky.” There are music clubs, where you can sign up by mail, and each month they will send you one or more tapes for you to listen to. Any you don’t want, you can send back within a certain period of time, though as I recall, they have a requirement that you buy one every once in a while, whether you want it or not, to remain in the club.In the late ’80s there is voicemail, and call-waiting available (I think there’s even Caller ID), from the phone company, but in the earlier part of the decade there isn’t. If you want something to record messages, there are affordable tape cassette answering machines that you hook up to the wall outlet, and the phone.As I said earlier, the only phones available are landline phones. You get your pick of a rotary phone, or a touch-tone phone. Rotary phones are cheaper, but this is where the term “dial a number” comes from. You literally turn a dial that counts out (by sending pulses down the phone line) each number in a phone number. Most people in the ’80s have touch-tone phones. None of the phones are portable. They’re not wireless. Wireless walk-around phones are not common until the early ’90s (as I recall).There are computers, but they’re not nearly as powerful as a smartphone, and most of them are quite a bit harder to use. For most of them, you have to know some things about how they work to use them.At the beginning of the decade, the most powerful microcomputer you can get runs at 2 Mhz, has 128K of memory, and a floppy disk drive, and costs about $4,300 (which is equivalent to $12,723 today). By the end of the decade, the most powerful you can get runs at 25 Mhz, has 8 MB of memory, with a 256 MB hard disk, and costs about $6,500 ($12,780 today). So, you won’t be watching movies on it. The technology to do that doesn’t exist yet. You still won’t be accessing the internet on it, either, unless it’s by modem, where you’re a student at a university (the only place where internet access is available). The more powerful computer at the end of the decade can play digital audio and video from a file. Most computers of the day generate graphics and music using their own internal hardware. They don’t have the capacity to display digital video or play digital audio, except for brief clips of several seconds.High-capacity CD-ROM digital media starts to become available for computers by the late ‘80s, but it’s very expensive.There are online services you can subscribe to, but they’re not on the internet. They have their own proprietary networks. The way you get to them is by phone modem. You pay a connection charge that’s by the minute (there’s no flat-rate pricing). There are also small, free (most of them), personal online services people set up called bulletin board systems, where they dedicate a computer in their house, or their store, where someone with a phone modem can call and connect up one at a time to read and leave messages in discussion groups, though it’s not like online chat (unless the system operator happens to break in on your session and chat with you). Like with an answering machine, it’s like leaving messages, except that anyone who has an account on the system can read them, when they can get through to it.Vehicles come in pretty much the same forms as you see today; sedans, hatchbacks, wagons, SUVs, and trucks (though vans seem to have gone by the wayside today). Car amenities are pretty basic, though not terrible. You’ll have heat and AC, AM/FM radio, and a built-in cassette player with auto-reverse (so you don’t have to flip the tape to listen to both sides). By the mid-80s they have power locks and doors, and disc brakes. By the late ’80s they have power steering, power brakes, and fuel injection. Though luxury cars have had these features since the 1970s.Everything requires more patience, and more work.There is no online documentation. So, if you want a document, you have to know what you want, and you have to go to the library to get it (and if it’s checked out, you have to wait until it’s brought back in), or go to the bookstore, or order it by mail. If you want a product, you have to call around to different stores and see who has it. There’s no automated call waiting or menu service, so you connect to a customer service rep. every time you call. If they’re busy, you have to wait and call back to see if you can get through. If they’re sold out of something, you have to wait until they get it in. Your phone and your phone book are how you do a “search.”If you want to apply for a job, your primary place to go look for advertised job openings is in the newspapers (though if you ask professional career counselors, the advice they give is to “make connections with people,” because not all jobs are advertised). If you want to submit a job application, you have to type it, or print it on nice resume-bond paper, and mail it to the employer. If you have access to a laser printer, putting your resume on paper is fairly easy to do. Otherwise, you have to use a typewriter, and type each resume and cover letter out yourself (or make photocopies on your bond paper).If you want to play video games, there are game consoles (and you can play games on a computer), but again, they cost quite a bit. Computer games typically cost $40 a copy (equivalent of between $118 and $79 today, depending on what year you land in). Most people play video games at the arcades. You go there with a bunch of quarters, and play with friends. The only portable electronic games you’re likely to see are things like this.The Nintendo Game Boy and Atari Lynx don’t come out until 1989.Computers are usually too big and bulky to bring to school (though you might get by with an Apple IIc), and schools don’t require you to use them, but you have a leg up on other students if you have a compatible computer at home. What I mean is if you have an Apple II. If schools have computers, this is the most common one they have, and Apple II software and file formats only run on other Apple II’s.The typical school use for a computer is to use a word processor to write papers. This doesn’t really get going until about the mid-80s, though. Most of the time, you’ll be using paper notebooks to write papers.Hope your penmanship (ie. cursive) is good! However, your teacher might allow you to use a typewriter to write papers.Oh, and if you want a spell check, here’s a dictionary.If you need to do research, you need to go to a library, unless you’re lucky enough to have a family with some money that has an up-to-date encyclopedia collection. You might need to use a card catalog, but in the town I grew up in, the public library computerized their catalog fairly early in the ‘80s. So, you might get lucky. :) Public school libraries haven’t computerized, though. Still gotta use a card catalog for them.There are no digital books. So, in secondary school, you need to carry around the books you need for class and homework, and think strategically about what books and notebooks you will keep in your locker, and which you will keep in your backpack, or sports bag, or just carry in your arms. Primary schools don’t have lockers. You keep your books at your desk, unless you need them for homework.School subjects basically keep to the classics, though it’s not as rigorous as it was years earlier. The emphasis on social justice topics is non-existent. You’re expected to do your own work by yourself. Group assignments are pretty rare. You can expect to hear disagreement in class on social topics, such as in social studies, with people offering differing opinions that you might find offensive. Likewise with the school play, or guest speakers that the school might invite for an assembly.As a student, you’re expected to behave in class. Don’t talk while the teacher is talking, respond when you’re called upon, and stay in your chair during class, unless called upon to do something that requires you to get up. You are also expected to be respectful toward the teacher, as the teacher is expected to be respectful towards you. If you don’t adhere to these rules, you’ll either be asked to go outside the classroom until you think you can sit still, or you’ll be sent to the principal’s office for further disciplinary action. How strict teachers are about this depends on the teacher.All communication in class is in English. Even if you know a foreign language, and are just talking to a foreign language friend during a group activity, the teacher will interject and say, “Speak English in class.” Not doing so will be considered misbehaving, and you will be disciplined. This is official policy in the school system. The exception, of course, is in foreign language classes, though the expectation is that the language being taught is the only foreign language that will be used during class.Since computers are not as powerful, and more expensive, your teacher may be using one of these to write notes for the class.It’s either that, or the chalkboard.SNL had a great sketch for what taking notes from the teacher off the chalkboard was sometimes like, with Chris Kattan playing Suel Forrester.Watch Suel Forrester: Substitute Teacher from Saturday Night Live on NBC.comIt’s not that you won’t be able to understand the teacher’s speech. You’ll understand that just fine. It’s just that you might not understand what’s being written on the board, because the teacher just wrote a scrawl, not legibly. There could also be times when you feel like only a few of the students are really “with it” with the teacher, understanding what they’re talking about, and others are lost to varying degrees.If you want to “chat” with friends remotely, the only way to do that is over the phone (and you have to be where a phone is), and it’s only with one person at a time. When we were in school, we’d sometimes surreptitiously pass little paper notes between each other during class, or talk to each other briefly during passing period.There is no such thing as teleconferencing, without additional (expensive) equipment, and additional phone lines (added expense). So, if you want to coordinate with a bunch of friends, you have to call each of them up one by one, figure out when they are available, and keep straight which of them has overlapping schedules when they’re free, and call each of them back.The one thing that is most like today is seeing a movie. In the ‘80s, they still come out in theaters first, and come out on video several months afterward. You can rent them whenever you want (if the local video store has copies in stock). If you don’t have a VCR, you can rent them cheap. People who have some money have their own VCRs, but it’s a fairly expensive item. So, it’s not as common for people to own them as it was in the ‘90s.Watching TV today is pretty much like it is in the ‘80s, in terms of what you can expect watching content through channels, except people expect to stay on the couch now, rather than get up and change the channel on the TV, or to turn it on and off, and most people have a lot more channels. The major difference now is there’s on-demand content. That’s science fiction in the ‘80s.I talked more about some of this stuff at Mark Miller's answer to If a millennial (born 1996 or later) travelled to 1986, would he or she be able to fit in?