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[nicholas_chiasson]

-Most of the English teachers here can expect to die between the years 2040-2070. This includes those who might hit their 90's because of the higher life expectancy and so on that has become a fact of life these days in the 1st world.
-However think about a 90 year old alive today. She(cause women liven longer) had seen the Second World War, the Korean War, the Downfall of Communism, the invention of the internet, the mainstream use of air travel, the cell phone, and so on. Entire countries like Ukraine, and East Timor make the news, areas which were once colonies of Major Powers.
-What to you expect to see different in the world when you are OLD.
-I expect
-China embraces wide spread capitalism with lesser restrictions becomming a bizarre neo-empire
-Russia collapses AGAIN as its population shrinks to the point it can't maintain ANY military force
-The death of American MIddle class. Look how many americans are FORCED to teach English here
-The destruction of Israel, or of nieghboring Arab States. They just CAN"T get along.
-Wide spread use of 'designer' gen-enginered replacement organs used for personal transplants. Grown in Petri dishes.
-Cybernetics. Implanted chips and communication technology, cell phone IN your head. Digital eyes for the blind.
--What do you think you'll see before you die?

[blurgalurgalurga]

I expect we'll see some pretty strange weather, a lot of dead poor people, a Scientologist run for President and lose, Schwartzenegger run for President and win, and some really awesome video games.

[Tony_Balony]

[shifty]

The rate of new inventions has been amazing and the world has changed a lot in short order. Can we extrapolate that similar revolutions will overtake the young generation? My gut feeling is not.

In the sixties we had the Beatles, the Stones, Simon and Garfunkel to name just a few, plus end of sexual suppression. I imagined that things would continue at that pace, but they didn't.

The internet is the exception that proved that rule.

My off the cuff opinion. Open to being persuaded otherwise.

[beachbumNC]

did anybody see Snoop Dogg on Larry King Live the other day?

when we (the we i'm part of would be 20-something Americans) are old, we will be slowly driven around in automated luxury cars built in China or India. Snoop Dogg videos will play through the dash-mounted 3d hologram display and pot-smoking neo-neo-hippies will think we are cool if we got to see him in concert while he was alive.

our grandkids will have the Internet streaming constantly directly into their brains. plus they will all speak an l33t version of Spanish...if they even speak at all.

we will talk about "the good old days" and lament the loss of cigarettes, meat, pickup trucks, guns, country music, paper money, books, and television that was a box in a room that you could turn off if you wanted to.

but none of that will matter, because with the awesome technology we will have available we will all look better than we did in our 20s and just have sex and feel good all day every day well into our 100s.

that is, of course, if the American middle class survives.

if not, there will be a second civil war as soon as Uncle Sam seriously decides to take the guns away. of course, thousands of American citizens will be killed and hundreds of thousands more will be sent to labor camps in China and The African Union to help work off the national debt.

[karma police]

i'm old and i died years ago. let me confirm then:

life sucks and then you die.

[yingwenlaoshi]

2040? Rolling Stones farewell tour and lean-back toilets everywhere where you won't need to even touch your pants to pull them down or up. You won't actually have to use your hands at all. They'll wash, dry and wipe you automatically.

[twg]

Recently, though I think it may be the advancing age I'm feeling... I think I'll be seeing society collapse before I die.

Or: I'll die because society collapsed and there won't be anyone around to change my adult diaper.

I guess what I'm saying is, we're all boned and I'm pretty sure one of my last acts will be to witness it.

[itaewonguy]

in 50 years from now...
I doubt we will see anything to strange I guess we will see just better quality of what we have now and a few better gadgets!

flying cars, robot maids and all that jazz I dont think so..

now 100 years or 200 years from now... well forget about it..

living in the beginning of it all kinda sucks..

wish I was born 1000 years from now..

I mean life wasnt really that different 50 years ago..
so 50 years later wont even be that different..
but 1000 years . ohhh man...

[Zutronius]

Dystopia.

[Czarjorge]

Death is no longer a factor as scientists discover that all thought is merely electrical impulse. It becomes possible for minds to be converted to digital information, allowing people to live in a cyberworld or download into robotic bodies. Placing the minds of the world's dead into robot bodies allows undersea and interstellar exploration without the risk of "death" as copies of those minds sent out are retained. Scientific progress speeds forward as brilliant people are allowed to continue their research. In two hundred years we have colonized the Moon, Mars, and several of the moons in our solar system.

[Czarjorge]

[VanIslander]

How many old people do you know?

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.

You will care about your health, your friends and family and your memories, though following the news is a hobby of some of the elderly, usually the lonely ones.

[Easter Clark]

I'm still waiting for self-lacing shoes and hover boards...if those aren't here by 2015 I'm going to feel ripped off!

[tfunk]

The only way to get rich in this life and to therefore live to an old age is to go into the plate making industry.

Everybody needs plates, even the Chinese.

PM me for more details.