1950 feels kind of recent, but 2100 still seems super far off and futuristic.
That is how numbers work, yes.
1950 was 75 years ago, and 2100 is 75 years from now. Kinda wild, right?
Submitted 17 hours ago by seaside@reddthat.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Delusional optimist, assuming any of us will make it to 2100.
And I’m not talking about old age.
10MeterFeldweg@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Like my parents are in their 80s now and were living their youth throug the 1950s. My kids will also be in their 80s when they see 2100.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
What’s wild is my grandparents are in their 70s and my kids will be in their 70s when they see 2100.
And I had kids late (34), if I had followed the same rate as pretty much every generation prior to me back to the dawn of man - it’d be my grandkids in their 80s at 2100.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
My parents weren’t even born in the 50s, no that does feel recent
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Usually these make me feel old. This one doesn’t make me feel old. This one makes me have an existential crisis. Because 2100 sounds like it’s going to be filled with just this dark dystopia of hatred and anger.
And 1950 had racial lynchings, and Japanese-American citizens, who had full citizenship as a legal born citizen, had just gone through the past few recent years of being held in camps, and worked, in terrible conditions, all because their parents came from the wrong country. It had governments actively trying to brainwash their citizens into being patriotic and thus easier to control.
I look at the past, and look at the future, and it makes sense why we are where we are. This is what humans are. Humans are the worst people. It’s not going to get better. We’ve thrown shit at ourselves for so long that now we’re all a bit dirty and smelly. But also an elephant is trying to use your body as a poop knife, so it can break up the shit in it’s butthole, and take an even BIGGER shit on you. Like 80lbs of shit just falling on your head.
That’s where we are right now as a society, because we’ve paved the way to get here.
saltesc@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Seems right to me. Think in centuries and not your lifetime. Your lifetine is more likely to span two centuries, so while the 1950s was just recently, you’ll be in the 2050s.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
WHAT
sxan@midwest.social 12 hours ago
So did 2025 to me, back in the 80’s. Back then, I thought women would have income parity, we might have a large space habitat, or maybe even a permanent outpost on the moon, that NASA would still be running the space program for the US… but I had no idea we’d invent time travel and the US would be transported to back to 1940.