03-13-2009, 03:24 PM
Yeah it's basically one of those things that people e-mail to everyone else, but I've not seen it in an e-mail
A self-important college freshman walking along the beach took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen resting on the steps why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation. "You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one" the student said loud enough for others to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon. We have nuclear energy, ships and cell phones, computers with light speed...and many more."
After a brief silence, the senior citizen responded as follows. "You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young..so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little sh*t what are you doing for the next generation?
The applause was amazing!
I'm sure it's not even remotely close to an actual conversation but I got a chuckle out of it, mainly because I could see my grandpa saying just that to someone. :) He was actually involved in some of the military research that led to some of the things that are taken for granted today too. Nothing amazing just figured I'd pull the print out down and type it up and share. :)
The real meat is do you think the younger generations are contributing to the "advancement" of humanity and of course is the mostly technological progress of the last couple of centuries really an advancement?
I'd have to say that the younger generation is still doing lots. The gentleman who figured out how to use the enzyme from fireflies to speed up genome decoding a hundredfold, is younger than I am. That has led to a several other advancements in medical science. I can't say progress is stagnating. Though I'm not sure I can pinpoint a revolutionary change in the last couple of decades either.
Again nothing much. I was mainly sharing a chuckle, but this is the lounge so I decided to go a bit further. :)
A self-important college freshman walking along the beach took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen resting on the steps why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation. "You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one" the student said loud enough for others to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon. We have nuclear energy, ships and cell phones, computers with light speed...and many more."
After a brief silence, the senior citizen responded as follows. "You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young..so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little sh*t what are you doing for the next generation?
The applause was amazing!
I'm sure it's not even remotely close to an actual conversation but I got a chuckle out of it, mainly because I could see my grandpa saying just that to someone. :) He was actually involved in some of the military research that led to some of the things that are taken for granted today too. Nothing amazing just figured I'd pull the print out down and type it up and share. :)
The real meat is do you think the younger generations are contributing to the "advancement" of humanity and of course is the mostly technological progress of the last couple of centuries really an advancement?
I'd have to say that the younger generation is still doing lots. The gentleman who figured out how to use the enzyme from fireflies to speed up genome decoding a hundredfold, is younger than I am. That has led to a several other advancements in medical science. I can't say progress is stagnating. Though I'm not sure I can pinpoint a revolutionary change in the last couple of decades either.
Again nothing much. I was mainly sharing a chuckle, but this is the lounge so I decided to go a bit further. :)
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.