|
Saturday, December 9, 2006
Previous topic
|
Next topic
|
|
 Saturday, December 9, 2006
started 12/9/2006; 11:28:15 AM - last post 12/10/2006; 11:05:08 AM
|
|
Doc Searls - Saturday, December 9, 2006 
12/9/2006; 3:28:15 PM (reads: 7128, responses: 2)
|
|
Getting restarted 
| | Ronni Bennett's Imagining Old Age is an I-opener. After sharing what various 20-somethings imagine about life in their 60s, she asks, When you were 20, how did you imagine your life would be at 65 or 70, and how is it different now - or not? |
| | I either couldn't or wouldn't imagine it. Often I just guessed that I'd be dead. Premonitions of death persisted until my early 30s. That was when I had a heart scare that really wasn't; but I spent time in the hospital, thinking about The Rest of My Life, and realizing that 1) It could go a long time, and 2) I had no idea what was coming, beyond the next few years. |
| | What's different now is that I'm far more capable, energetic, optimistic and eager to change the world at 59 than I ever was at any earlier age. And I can't imagine not feeling this way for the duration. Or I won't. (What's the upside to pessimism?) |
| | I'm also sure my 20-year-old self (bad student, barely scraping through college, imagining no clear career opportunities, worrying about the sorry state of the world, heading toward an too-early and ill-considered marriage) would be gratified that this is where I am now, even if it took so damn long. |
Projections
discuss
|
|
Blog Bloke - Re: Friday, December 8, 2006
12/10/2006; 10:00:26 AM (reads: 597, responses: 0)
|
|
|
I guess it was about time that I joined one of my favorite bloggers. Love the attitude and keep on keeping on Doc. You are inspiration for the rest of us.
...Blog Bloke
discuss
|
|
JTH - Re: Friday, December 8, 2006
12/10/2006; 3:05:08 PM (reads: 648, responses: 0)
|
|
|
Doc:
Back on the Road Again (cue up Willi Nelson)
Difference 20 and 59 (best I can recall, I'm only a few weeks ahead of ya)
Per last night's dinner (http://www.charlietrotters.com), at 20, I doubt that I could have comprehended a 3hr "tasting" dinner starting around 9PM. Common fare was Dinty Moore "beef stew", Spam, grilled cheese ...
Agree on changing the world, but, for me, now much more local. My own backyard. Save open spaces and natural areas to enjoy when I'm 100+
http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0506/thoughtexperiments.shtml
"But the most salient scenario is that we’ll gradually merge with our technology. We’ll use nanobots to kill pathogens, then to kill cancer cells, and then they’ll go into our brain and do benign things there like augment our memory, and very gradually they’ll get more and more sophisticated."
Ciao
Chip
discuss
|
|
|
Copyright 2009 The Doc Searls Weblog
|
