mikeybound wrote:You must be stuck in the 50's. Science moves faster then that!
Depends on the science; not all fields progress at an equal pace. Health care has progressed faster than most; that's why life expectancy has jumped by about 20 years in the last century. But the kind of progress this ad implies is implausible - for NOW. I study science; I read various scientific journals. If there were ANY factual evidence to back up claims that the younger generation would see orders of magnitude greater life expectancy than mine did, I've have heard about it by now. We all would have; it'd be the biggest news since Apollo 11.
And I'm NOT saying such discoveries can't happen soon or won't happen soon; just that based on CURRENT knowledge such claims are science fiction instead of science. I can recall reading similar claims in science magazines when *I* was *your* age. They predicted life expectancy would be over 100 by now, 150 by 2020, and virtual immortality by 2030!!! I do NOT see that happening; at least not on such ridiculously short time scales. Eventually perhaps - but in the next decade or two... you're
dreaming.
As for being stuck in the 1950s, much of our tech IS still 1950s. Cars look different but run exactly the same as in 1950; all that's changed is electronic software like GPS that has NOTHING to do with running the car itself. Rockets launched into space still use the same principles the first rockets launched by NASA did. We still haven't found anything faster than radio. The way we construct buildings hasn't changed in over a century. Yet science fiction and science journals from when i was younger predicted massive changes in ALL these by the first decade of the 21st century. Well, that's come and gone and we still don't have flying cars, personal jetpacks, cities on the moon, or robot maids, not are we likely to get them anytime soon.
If transportation tech had advanced as quickly as computer tech in my lifetime, Star Trek would be a reality by now. We'd have people in the Alpha Centauri star system, let alone on the moon.
If health care tech had advanced so quickly, we WOULD all be immortal by now.
But not all science and technology advances the same pace. All have definite limits - even computer tech - that we may NEVER surpass (barring discoveries that radically change the way we understand physics; something that hasn't happened since Einstein). Health care is one of them. progress is beign made for sure, but the quantum leaps we are discussing are NOT coming as soon as that ad implies. Eventually, yes. In our lifetimes (or at least yours), maybe. In the next decade or two (let alone now); forget it.
But you don't have to take my word for it; time will show which of us is right. And time alone.
Edit: Except for the racism of the times, i wish I really WAS stuck - literally - in the 1950s!!! I think I'd have been happier then than I am now in 2013. But then, I'm an aging fart yearning for simpler times again.

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