Life in the 1960s was better for people and significantly different from life today. Comparing the 1960s to today, there are many significant differences. The 1960s saw events unique to that era, such as the Vietnam War and the moon landing, and today we are trying to find ways to advance technology further. The two eras also had different lifestyles, clothing, technology and pastimes. Life in the 1960s was better than today because the world hadn't advanced too far yet and life revolved more around friends and family than other things. The events of the 1960s changed the people of that era. People who did adventurous things like Neil Armstrong walking on the moon and those men who came home from the Vietnam War inspired them, feminism improved women's lives, teenagers started enjoying life more with the beginning of the counterculture, the cold war made people aware of the danger of nuclear technology and the assassination of JFK gave people a topic of conversation. Important events today include the discovery of cloning, which is a way of c...