What I'm amazed at is how a 6 year old knows more about configuring Windows than her parents. I went to my friend's house and her cousin knew more about computers than when I was 14. Yikes!

i dont know what older is.. im only 20 ..

It must be sumthin we should be proud of then... This only implies that the human race is getting smarter by the generation, and it'll be only a few more generations when star trek fantasy becomes a reality...

What I've noticed is that we've grown bigger and stronger, perhaps smarter, than people from 1900's :!:. What did we do the last 50 years? We made from a 2 meter computer this little pc that sits in front of us! I mean it took us 32 million years just figuring out that standing up can be a good thing. What do ya think will happen in another 50 years?..... :rolleyes:

Technology and science wise, we are progressing. Personality wise and character wise, we haven't grown much, that is if you compare the change in human character to the change in technology and science. People are still racists, commit rape, homocide, and the most eccentric of gruesome crimes. There's still a lot of religious conflict and a tremendous power struggle in third world countries. These are things that have existed for hundreds to even thousands of years, yet you think we'd be more civiliazed by now. It's true that we've changed, but the change is not as dramatic as our change in science and technology.

we've changed, yes, but is it changing for the better?

Well, depending on technology is one thing, but if you put the average person of today, somewhere in the bush, that guy won't live very long.

And yea well, we can't ignore all those problems in the third world. Even I must say coming from the Netherlands in a multi-national country as it is now, with our
drugs-policy. Most people are against it, but it takes a healthy mind to realise such a thing. And yet most people from different nationalities commit these crimes here. Atleast that's what the media shows. And it's hard for the media to make these news, because it's the only news and That's what they're going to show. And now my country is on the black-list, because they let you carry 10 grams of cocaine or heroine with you. It's all very disturbing and I must say if I would think about this daily, I wouldn't be here right now.

i'm 20 and i can sympathize with the poster...lol. i remember playing 3d tetris on some godawful byzantine machine back in the 80s. lol

Tetris? you should've tried playing basketball on Atari... I can remember them playing one-on-one basketball on the whole of the court, and GAAWWDD!! they have square heads and playing with a square ball... imagine that...

You know you're getting old when your grandkid turns up, beats the living bejeesus out of you at multiplayer, and you know that no matter how much you practice, it ain't gonna change!

But the point is, you don't have to be old unless you give up, and adopt some stereotypical lifestyle based upon the expectations of others. I had one of my grandkids turn up on the weekend, and he gave me the irrits sitting down to a 4 hour session of Grand Theft Auto 3. I couldn't ecven get near my own games rig! But I beat him in the end. Put 'Jah Rule' on the stereo and cranked it up loud! That shifted him, because he hates listening to 'Jah Rule'!