Statistical Unlikeliness
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It depends if we can still build something larger than ourselves. I just hope that beyond the "me", which is working quite well for those in the Western countries (and maybe sooner or later in the BRICS), we'll manage, one way or another, to have once again those achievements that everyone will look at with awe, even decades or centuries laters.
Simply put, those in the Sixties went to the Moon. What will we leave behind? Smartphones and blogs aren't the only thing I want to see when I'll be an old man in his bed.
As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero.
FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC!
How about advancing science at a rate that more than matches the first half of the previous century? With our missions in Mars and other planets, and with particle accelerators like the LHC at CERN, we can make discoveries that, while built on those of our predecessors, will be regarded as highly as or even higher than those of the likes of Bohr, Fermi, Einstein, and so on.
Who knows what else we'll build. By the time I'm lying on my deathbed, we might have finished the construction of a global energy infrastructure that is more completely green than any technology that exists today.
Some of the diseases that we fight with might be gone.
Who knows what else we'll do.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.
'80s TV Action Hero
Collapse the world economy back to pre-industrial levels by means of an inability to think 'ooh, I can't afford this...'?
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'
I gotta go with the science. My generation were right at the cusp of the internet truly being available for nearly all consumers, when every house could get dialup for a good price. Science has exponentially increased since I was born, and some of the stuff that we're rolling out as prototypes now were virtually unthinkable a measly two and a half to three decades ago.
Happy New Year!
Yes but it's debatable how much of that is the result of our generation, we might make the most use of telicommication but we didn't lay lay the copper wire and fiber optics or put the syterms in place to run
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Well then in that case I hope that ours the so called 'Me' generation, will be remembered positively for it's self centredness.
Not in terms of being ungrateful or spoiled, but rather for being brave and headstong enough to live our lives according to our own desires and vuales regardless of what society expected or thinks of them.
That's is a legacy we can be proud of.
edited 14th Aug '12 2:25:52 AM by joeyjojo
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