old people bitter about dying just as technology starting to get good?

[futurefields]

what do you guys think?

 

[highland145]

I'm not dead yet.



posting in a ff thread.

 

[Jaskalas]

I'd be pissed too if I was 60-80+ and the cure for aging was within reach.
Of course... that might not be worth much before the cure for cancer... but surely that too will follow.

 

[mrjminer]

I'm not that old and I am pissed. By the time I die, technology is going to be insane. What has been accomplished in the past 50 years is just astounding. Another 50 years from now, everything will be unrecognizable. I'll probably just barely be around around that time, but people 100 - 200 years from now people are probably going to be immortal via brain transplants into newly grown bodies, or possibly just mapping new brains into babies or something else ridiculous.

I am pissed that I will miss out on witnessing much more in the technological sector, and other worldly ongoings, by being born 100-200 years too early to be immortal.

 

[Humpy]

Do old people give a fuck about technology? To my parents and their friends technology is just a burden.

I'm already pretty tired of hearing about stuff like Windows 10 and Android updates.I don't care about the software that operates my microwave or car. Why do I need to know what system my phone uses to function?

 

[maddogchen]

old people try to avoid technology, so no.

 

[highland145]

old people try to avoid technology, so no.

Not true. They just suck at using it. After we got my parents a computer, I'd get daily calls, "You busy?"

One day, I'll be that burden on my child.:awe:

 

[maddogchen]

Not true. They just suck at using it. After we got my parents a computer, I'd get daily calls, "You busy?"

One day, I'll be that burden on my child.:awe:

LOL, call your child on day, 'How do I use this hologram for sex?'

 

[highland145]

LOL, call your child on day, 'How do I use this hologram for sex?'

Since he's a chip off the old block, he'll probably say, "Sex? Can you even find it anymore? Viagra's bad for your heart. The last time you had sex, Reagan was president. When did you get rid of your flip phone? Since you're still on dial up, the frame rate should be just about right." etc

 

[Mai72]

I saw an old dude pick up a newspaper in a store.

I then pulled out my Nexus 5 and laughed. I can view current news within seconds while he has to wait for the news to hit the newsstands. Even viewing the news on TV is slow compared to what I can do online.

 

[lxskllr]

Technology's always just "getting good". The next 20 years are bullshit. I want to see what's happening in 1,000 years.

 

[highland145]

I saw an old dude pick up a newspaper in a store.

I then pulled out my Nexus 5 and laughed. I can view current news within seconds while he has to wait for the news to hit the newsstands. Even viewing the news on TV is slow compared to what I can do online.

The problem it that you are slow online compared to the rest of us. Sadly.

 

[highland145]

Technology's always just "getting good". The next 20 years are bullshit. I want to see what's happening in 1,000 years.

Cockroaches rule the world.

 

[lxskllr]

Cockroaches rule the world.

They're already in DC. The rest of the world's relatively trivial :^P

 

[Mai72]

The problem it that you are slow online compared to the rest of us. Sadly.

 

[highland145]

:hug;

 

[Geekbabe]

what do you guys think?

I am not "bitter" I am just sad. I have been fascinated by technology for decades & yes, I would love to live a couple more decades.

I am enjoying a new technology though, Immunotherapy.. A drug called Opdivo

 

[MongGrel]

I'm bitter.

Lot's of things these days make me depressed actually.

 

[futurefields]

I'm not that old and I am pissed. By the time I die, technology is going to be insane. What has been accomplished in the past 50 years is just astounding. Another 50 years from now, everything will be unrecognizable. I'll probably just barely be around around that time, but people 100 - 200 years from now people are probably going to be immortal via brain transplants into newly grown bodies, or possibly just mapping new brains into babies or something else ridiculous.

I am pissed that I will miss out on witnessing much more in the technological sector, and other worldly ongoings, by being born 100-200 years too early to be immortal.

you think immortaility is 100-200 years aWay?

wow

 

[Ns1]

where are the fuckable robots drudge has been promising me?

 

[futurefields]

I saw an old dude pick up a newspaper in a store.

I then pulled out my Nexus 5 and laughed. I can view current news within seconds while he has to wait for the news to hit the newsstands. Even viewing the news on TV is slow compared to what I can do online.

then i pulled out my nexus 6 and gave you screen envy

 

[Svnla]

LOL, call your child on day, 'How do I use this hologram for sex?'

You do not need to call your child. You come in here and ask in the L+R subforum. A lot of experience users there.

 

[db]

this is an age-related thing which affects the perception of the young as well as the perception of the aged. iow, nothing has changed, you are just noticing shit.

 

[brianmanahan]

 

[Remobz]

Too bad my mother died from cancer before a cure was found