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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| VanIslander wrote: |
| When you're old you won't give a hoot what's going on outside of your own immediate community, nor will you care how big of a house or how fancy of a car you will have or have had, nor how successful your career(s) have been. |
True, my grandmother is not really bothered what happens outside her front door apart from family and friends.
Whatever happens in the future, all I know is that we need less hair on our heads and more in our nose and ears.  |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| From what I hear of stereotypes of old people, I should expect less of everything good and more of everything bad when I get old. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| From what I hear of stereotypes of old people, I should expect less of everything good and more of everything bad when I get old. |
What you think is good and bad will change, so don't worry.  I have spent years with retired family members and their retired friends, helping out at the local seniors' home and been around a lot of old people, and what they say and do and seem to value is very different than us younger people. Saving money for retirement? If you really want to make the old version of yourself happy then forget the young person's concerns with financial security, homes, cars careers and status and instead take care of your health, travel, keep friendships and help family, do what you really want to do rather than buy things or 'be responsible'. |
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Juregen
Joined: 30 May 2006
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I believe that science will make it so that we can easily live to be a 120 due to fresh organ transplants, not much unlike plastic surgery. Not to mention effective cures for cancer and AIDS.
They also might find the trick to fool the cells into believing they are younger then they really are.
People will thus live longer and more productively, reducing the need to make a lot of babies, effectively reducing the population at the end of this century.
Alternative energy resources will alleviate current demands on a global scale.
Corruption and crime will become even more like a state within a state, and grow to an economic size bigger then your average country. |
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Stormy
Joined: 10 Jan 2008
Location: Here & there
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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I believe I'll see my face in the mirror get wrinklier & saggier...at least until my vision gives up for good.
I'll see young whippersnappers come along & realise that they wouldn't have survived in my day. I'll feel the need to share this with as many young whippersnappers as I can find.
Policemen and doctors will start to look like they're 12 years old, again I'll feel the need to share this with everyone I meet.
The world will go to hell in a handbasket; food won't taste like it did in my day, people won't work as hard as they did in my day, colours won't be as bright as they were in my day.
I'll adopt 37 cats. Can't wait really. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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We'll find out that our expectations of China were as unrealistic as our expectations of Japan, when will we ever learn?
We'll find out that the Western world will do just fine, and will profit from the emergence of non-Western economies to trade with, as we always have.
And the Middle East will begin to dig itself out of its hole, after all the mullahs and Islamists have been discredited by their perpetual failures. |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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100%, definitely in our lifetimes we will see:
WWII, a massive environmental catastrophe or both.
I doubt I'll make it to 40 though so it might be in your lifetimes.  |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Tokki1 wrote: |
100%, definitely in our lifetimes we will see:
WWII, a massive environmental catastrophe or both.
I doubt I'll make it to 40 though so it might be in your lifetimes. |
I'm no history buff, but didn't that already happen? |
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Tokki1
Joined: 14 May 2007
Location: The gap between the Korean superiority and inferiority complex
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Tokki1 wrote: |
100%, definitely in our lifetimes we will see:
WWII, a massive environmental catastrophe or both.
I doubt I'll make it to 40 though so it might be in your lifetimes. |
I'm no history buff, but didn't that already happen? |
LOL...OOPS!
WWIII my bad.  |
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Are they the lemmings
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.
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I want a personal rocket backpack that can last for a day or so without refueling. Wasn't that the big "future" item all those years ago? Reminds me of that scene on the West Wing...
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Leo: "My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't even have the Concorde anymore. Technology stopped."
Josh: "The personal computer..."
Leo: "...Where's my jet pack, my colonies on the Moon?" |
In my memory, "the future" in those Tomorrow's World-type programmes was always the year 2000. Does anyone else who watched those programes last century find it disconcerting that 2000 has been and gone? And we still don't have our #*%$& jet packs?!  |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| From what I hear of stereotypes of old people, I should expect less of everything good and more of everything bad when I get old. |
I expect when I get older I'll ignore that my house has gone up in value from $300K to $1 million but complain bitterly that coffee has gone from $2 to $4. |
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