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eddo42

Prompt: What would it be like to live to be 104 years old?

Dec 30, 2012 04:37

Assuming I live that long, I would turn 104 years old in 2088. What will it be like then? Given that I was once accused of being "an old man in a young man's body" at the age of 17, I think it's probably fair to say that I will be even crankier and routine-driven by then. Then again, who really knows what the future can bring ( Read more... )

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jarlalex December 31 2012, 01:08:13 UTC

Some time you might be interested in my thoughts on the future of human civilisation, viz. how it may evolve between now and 2088. Perhaps at the next juncture I'm in the GHMA.

eddo42 December 31 2012, 03:58:11 UTC

You could always put it into an LJ post. :P

jarlalex December 31 2012, 10:57:43 UTC

Negative - if I were to write it down, it'd be a book; but the last thing I'd want is for there to be any possibility that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

eddo42 January 1 2013, 01:05:50 UTC

Some thoughts about this:
-The medium by which you air your concerns hardly seems like it would matter. It might take longer to propegate if you spoke them to me, rather than putting them down in text, but propegate they would, one way or another.
-If you could convey your thoughts on this matter in one of your brief visits to this area, I hardly think it would fill up a book, unless it were of the The Medium Is the Massage variety.
-When are you coming up here, anyway? I was given to understand that it might be sooner rather than later the last time this possibility was mentioned, which I think was circa September 2012.

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