I just realized I'll be 60 when the year 2043 rolls around. Flying cars and moon colonies etc abound how will I cope with such a high tech world at 60 years of age.

I guess I always expected that 20XX was going to be some really high tech stuff but now it seems so much closer, not so much far distant future.

Makes me wonder if we'll really advance that much at all. Are the sci-fi movies of the past going to have to be updated to read 30XX instead?

doesn't matter. the worlds coming to an end in 2012 anyway.

I think that the real issue here is that we aren't very good at predicting how we will advance. We might not have flying cars, but we have the internet and things that people half a century ago wouldn't really have thought to be significant technologies.

Anyway, flying cars aren't all that impressive as an idea. It would be better if they had non-polluting, inflatable cars that cost about 30 cents each.

For some reason I cannot quote Coldbladed.

Anyway, CB, as a youngster I visted the 1939-40 World's Fair in NYC. It had all sorts of predictions about how the world will be in the year 2000. Most of the predictions were the flying car variety and few focused on things like TV, computers, wireless communication or any of the more common but less Sci-Fi concepts.

I imagine it's easier to conceive a quantum jump vision than to imagine things that depend on development of devices like transistors and other step by step progressions.

I'm pretty sure you can't quote the first post in a forum thread.

And yes we never manage the outrageous expectations of our forefathers and yet always manage to advance technology in other less fantastical yet equally amazing ways. Its kind of funny like that.

Just like we don't have flying cars sure but we certainly have faster and more fuel efficient cars than anyone would have thought even a few decades ago. Though perhaps not both cars in the same body.

I know! LOL. Isn't that always the way! So, why not have outrageous expectations? Boy, my kids are sure in trouble. And, what do you get from expectations? A shift in your thinking, maybe? But surely not nothing.

I'll be 76 in 2043. I'm kinda thinking I won't want no change bout round then. I don't like it much now. but, that's a different thread.

I'll still be chasing after all you young'uns in 2043. *Roar*

I've seen a lot of foresee about the Dooms day,but does it really come so quickly?

yeah of course//lol