This video fits in with looking at old newspaper ads or old Christmas catalogs, reminders of what we have today (and at what price) that past generations could only dream about.
All the stuff they talk about were brought to us by, as Adam Smith once said about how we get our dinners, "... not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest."
Via Cafe Hayek (HT Eric Parsons).