Age is but a number?
Random food for though, the oldest woman to have ever lived was Jean Calment, who died at the young age of 122.5, meaning she was born in 1875. Now follow me here in a brief list of things she witnessed:
-The creation and evolution of a new art form - film from no sound, to sound, to color.
-Horse and buggy to motor carriage to cars with air condition and cruise control.
-An idea that flying like a bird would be cool, crude WWI air planes, WWII fighter planes, jet engine, rocket engine, nuclear bomb - landing on the moon. Just think about how fast we were in space, FIFTY years, that in itself is mindboggling.
Imagine what we'll see in our lifetime, the only lame thing I can think of is Pong to Doom to Halo. Let's make this a discussion, what have YOU seen in our lifetime that you think people will look back and go, wow. I think a cure for AIDS/Cancer will be amazing.
-The creation and evolution of a new art form - film from no sound, to sound, to color.
-Horse and buggy to motor carriage to cars with air condition and cruise control.
-An idea that flying like a bird would be cool, crude WWI air planes, WWII fighter planes, jet engine, rocket engine, nuclear bomb - landing on the moon. Just think about how fast we were in space, FIFTY years, that in itself is mindboggling.
Imagine what we'll see in our lifetime, the only lame thing I can think of is Pong to Doom to Halo. Let's make this a discussion, what have YOU seen in our lifetime that you think people will look back and go, wow. I think a cure for AIDS/Cancer will be amazing.
posted by Vatche @ 2:36 AM
3 Comments:
At 1:34 PM,
Steve said…
I think people are going to look back on how medicine has changed. Especially within the last 20 years there have been huge breakthroughs in medicine. Even now, in its earliest stages of development, stem cell treatments are letting people who have been paralized for years walk again. I just read an article on how they've gotten mice to regrow any damaged organs in their bodies (except the brain). Imagine if they can someday do this with a human. I think within the next 50 years, we're going to have a medical revolution.
At 6:27 PM,
Jessica said…
I think the greatest thing we've seen thus far in life was our nation going from a nation that is fearless to a nation scared of everything. With the "warning" levels of color to make us fear another possible attack, to not knowing what our fellow Americans are fighting against in the far away lands, to the fear of natural disaster, to simply fearing what the future holds for us. We have become a nation of fear, now understanding that anything is possible even here in the good old United States of America. We no longer stand as one nation under God but a nation torn by beliefs of fear. Fear is now the enemy of the our country. And that is the greatest thing we have witnessed thus far in life.
At 12:53 PM,
Unknown said…
iPad to iPad 2
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