Is this the best time to be alive?

[Giraffe]

Technology just keeps getting better in advancing people's lifestyle.
We are living longer than ever before.
The internet means world knowledge is better than ever before.
And we haven't had a world war for 71 years.

Can it get better or is it only downhill from now on?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Technology just keeps getting better in advancing people's lifestyle.
We are living longer than ever before.
The internet means world knowledge is better than ever before.
And we haven't had a world war for 71 years.

Can it get better or is it only downhill from now on?

Ask again this time next year, if we're still all here..

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[AmexRuislip]

Technology just keeps getting better in advancing people's lifestyle.
We are living longer than ever before.
The internet means world knowledge is better than ever before.
And we haven't had a world war for 71 years.

Can it get better or is it only downhill from now on?

Are you a distant relation to Nostradamus

 

[Mellotron]

The day of England 4 Holland 1 was probably the best time to be alive overall.

 

[el punal]

Technology just keeps getting better in advancing people's lifestyle.
We are living longer than ever before.
The internet means world knowledge is better than ever before.
And we haven't had a world war for 71 years.

Can it get better or is it only downhill from now on?

It all went downhill for me around 11 o'clock last night after our staff Christmas do. OUCH!

 

[dazzer6666]

it all went downhill for me around 11 o'clock last night after our staff christmas do. Ouch!

11 ? Lightweight !

 

[Giraffe]

Hell no. The baby boomer generation had it much better. Affordable housing, a job market you could get into easily, free education, the ability to retire before you die with a decent pension...the list goes on.

But no internet.
Low cancer cure rates and much lower life expectancy. I'd take now over then.

 

[indy3050]

The day of England 4 Holland 1 was probably the best time to be alive overall.

1996, I honestly don't think there will be a year to come to that one...

 

[Mr Bridger]

Hell no. The baby boomer generation had it much better. Affordable housing, a job market you could get into easily, free education, the ability to retire before you die with a decent pension...the list goes on.

Snowflake generation

 

[sir albion]

im not sure technology is a good thing at times and I'm sure life was better and stress free in years gone by.....Many good and many bad but would say for most life is far far tougher now financially and for youngsters it's as hard as it gets with social media and lack of jobs to contend with.
For most adults it's a financial battle and many people certainly don't smile as often....

Many pros and cons to be fair in general

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

You would replace the ability to have a house and a stable well paid job and a future for the internet!?

The internet allows the nation to pay attention to nothing, attention spans have never been shorter, you go to a football match, the theatre, to a gig, walk down the road and all people are doing is looking at this little square in their hand and actually seeing nothing at all. Absurd, Charlie Brooker state of affairs.

 

[clippedgull]

1966... we WON the World Cup That was a good time to be alive (which I was!!!)

and then three years later man landed on the moon!

 

[sir albion]

The internet allows the nation to pay attention to nothing, attention spans have never been shorter, you go to a football match, the theatre, to a gig, walk down the road and all people are doing is looking at this little square in their hand and actually seeing nothing at all. Absurd, Charlie Brooker state of affairs.

Yep it's bloody pathetic how many people have tunnel vision and don't want to communicate with people.....sad times we life in.

 

[Ernest]

1996, I honestly don't think there will be a year to come to that one...

You obviously not an Albion supporter then

 

[Durlston]

2004.

I wish I could go back to that year.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I'm not sure I hugely applaud effects of the developments, as they're called, that allow us to go through all of this for so much longer. I'd love to watch the Albion interminably, but, by god, I don't want to stretch out my dilapidation by another 20 years for when it should have been.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

But no internet.
Low cancer cure rates and much lower life expectancy. I'd take now over then.

In the,what seems to be, the worst year ever for deaths that I can remember up to and including the Brazilian footballers and Castro and there is a few weeks left yet.

 

[GT49er]

No, life's rubbish now! Take me back to the late 60s/early 70s, post pill and pre aids! I didn't creak so much back then either!

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Yeah, keep telling yourself that.
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Funnily enough I don't remember ever going to a gig, a football match, the cinema, the theatre or anywhere else when people kept picking up a newspaper every minute or so, but you carry on.

 

[el punal]

11 ? Lightweight !

Ah, but it started at midday - lunchtime gig. Lightweight pah!