How would you explain an Iphone to someone from the 1700s?

Me: i hold in my pocket a device that has access to all know information, and educated, but i use it to look at cat videos, and get in arguments with random strangers

I would be a champion of wording descriptions of the future to people who lived in the past… Since I'm a time-traveler anyway.

You know… Jesus had to use illustrations… Because a lot of things he had to tell his apostles about the future had never occurred even once yet.

I would say it's something that is useful to most of mankind.

Guy from the 1700's: what is a video

people back then didn't have videos so he wouldnt know what it was