2048 Plymouth Prowler Dig - How Old Will You Be?

[Steve]

In 2048 when they roll out the 1998 Plymouth Prowler entombed at Centennial Park, I will be 91 years old!  Should I survive that long, I hope to be there.  Any other Tulsa citizens care to share how old they will be in 2048, and their wishes for the Tulsa citizens of 2048?

[Ibanez]

78...I doubt I make it. The men in my family don't live much past 70

[cyndezu]

I'll be in my 80's can we change the subject?[]

[tulsa1603]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

In 2048 when they roll out the 1998 Plymouth Prowler entombed at Centennial Park, I will be 91 years old!  Should I survive that long, I hope to be there.  Any other Tulsa citizens care to share how old they will be in 2048, and their wishes for the Tulsa citizens of 2048?

I'll turn 72 that year.  I remember reading about the 1957 Belvedere when I was around 10 years old, and thinking how far off that sounded.  And that was just a 2o year wait...that Prowler isn't coming up for 41 more years??  Who knows if I'll live here/remember/be alive at that point? []

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by Steve

In 2048 when they roll out the 1998 Plymouth Prowler entombed at Centennial Park, I will be 91 years old!  Should I survive that long, I hope to be there.  Any other Tulsa citizens care to share how old they will be in 2048, and their wishes for the Tulsa citizens of 2048?

In 1957, they thought that petroleum powered cars may be obsolete in 2007, that's why they put gasoline (I am sure it was hi-test Ethyl, no it was hi-test DX Boron!) in the trunk of the car.  They thought we may all be flying around in nuclear-powered flying cars by 2007.  Not really too outlandish in retrospect; as a kid watching the "Jetsons" cartoon in the early 1960s, I thought the same thing!  Since 1957 we have seen men land and walk on the moon, which in my opinion is the greatest scientific and exploritory achievement of the human race to date.  We have also made great strides in the treatment of disease and extension of the human life span.  

Who in 1957 would have imagined home computers, digital technology, and the internet?  Much of our daily lives today in 2007 is the same as 1957.  We drive gasoline cars, heat and cool our homes with natural gas and electricity, etc.  The computer revolution has been the really big change in daily life, in my opinion.

What will we see by 2048?  Anyone care to venture a guess?

I am only 50 today, but I clearly remember the days when the biggest high-tech gadget in the office was a 10-key adding machine or a Comptometer!  (If any of you old timers still remember the Comptometers, kudos.)  If your company had a mainframe, IBM 360 system or such, you were on the cutting edge of tech.  When I graduated college in 1979, many company records were still kept on manual ledger sheets by hand.  We have come a long way in data gathering and retention since then, but has it really been a good thing?  The promises of the earlier computer age were that computers would take over mundane daily tasks, and give us all so much free time that work would be obsolete.  I think the exact opposite has happened.  Computers and technology have actually made our lives more complicated and placed such a huge demand on worker productivity, that no one has much free time anymore!

[DM]

73. I can do iiiit!.

[Double A]

74

[TurismoDreamin]

I will be 63. As farfetched as it sounds, I hope they have flying cars by then. It may be wishful thinking but I want to see a flying car before the end of my lifetime.

[Rowdy]

89[B)]

[sgrizzle]

Age: 72
Wishes for those in 2048: Get off mah lawn yah rascals!

[sauerkraut]

I'd be 102 and I didn't pick parents with long life spans. My parents went 6' under in their 70's. My odds are not too good. I don't smoke and I do take vitimans that may help.[?]

[Conan71]

83

[RecycleMichael]

I won't be as old as dirt, but as old as topsoil.

[Conan71]

I'll likely be compost...

[mr.jaynes]

quote:Originally posted by sauerkraut

I'd be 102 and I didn't pick parents with long life spans. My parents went 6' under in their 70's. My odds are not too good. I don't smoke and I do take vitimans that may help.[?]

Well, let's see. I live something of a hedonistic (though not totally dissolute) lifestyle, I do smoke, and also imbibe a few fermented libations daily and even eat foods of a high caloric and cholesterol level. I'm as fearless now as I was at 14 (witness my standing outdoors as Hurricane Katrina made landfall). But I'm still around to tell the tale and it hasn't really aged me, so I must be doing something right.