(February 14, 2016 at 10:39 pm)c172 Wrote: Boy! I'd hate to live to where I was a great-great-great grandfather! Imagine the culture shock of that generation gap! I wonder what popular music will be in that amount of time. I wonder what form social media will take, or whether it will be replaced by something.
For a while, I engaged in a hobby called conlanging, or building languages. I find language immensely interesting. I wonder what American English will be like in several hundred years.
I suppose it would depend upon how fast things continue to change, and if the the number of years we continue to have the flexibility of mind to adapt would also continue to expand. I wouldn't mind living for a few centuries if my ability to learn new things remained at my current level, but I do notice the difficulty for those how no longer can. I'd have to stay actively in touch with the great-great-great-great grandkids though. It's my kids who bring home new artists, writers, language, and so on. The tech is actually easier to keep up with.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
