One way to help would be to make the process more in tune with their normal experience; going to a church hall or whatever and using a pencil to make a mark on a slip of paper must seem outlandish to today's youth.
Fifty bucks may seem outlandish for a record album.
The idea that a machine could remotely replicate a human at most jobs seems outlandish to many of us because we've witnessed their clunky rise to prominence.
Once you've accounted for the jerkiness of the video, it doesn't seem outlandish, given the sorts of things men do in New York, particularly when talking about sports.
At the time, it did seem outlandish that the steward of a supermarket-tabloid empire would wind up as the proprietor of a storied name in American journalism.
Some of his views, like the merits of seasteading, seem outlandish but relatively harmless.
This might seem outlandish, but there are plenty of precedents to suggest that it could happen.
Or to be coldly budget-minded, what if the death toll is not 3,000 but 30,000, a figure that did not seem outlandish in the first hours of Sept. 11?
Such a figure may seem outlandish, but the current share of 15% would itself have seemed absurd in 1960, when America's total health expenditure amounted to only 5% of GDP.There are two major objections to the idea that health care should absorb an ever rising share of national income.
Flying cars may still seem outlandish and primarily the province of science fiction, but helicopter-maker Airbus actually believes that they'd be ignoring the category at their peril, given the pace and progress of technology that can help make it possible, including autonomous driving systems and electric battery tech.
