How do I explain this?

grizzly

What things that we take for granted now, would be really hard to get our heads around 100 years from now?

I was thinking about that story of the house in north city Dublin exploding. The idea that we pump a volatile gas into many homes - to folks in the future might sound crazy.

SawTroll

I burnt my toast.

Pawn

grizzly wrote: »

100 years from now

Seriously. I'll be dead. You'll be dead. Everyone will be dead.


No point in thinking.

--LOS--

Pawn wrote: »

Seriously. I'll be dead. You'll be dead. Everyone will be dead.


No point in thinking.

The human race won't survive another 100 years?

Do you know something we don't?

meoklmrk91

That we continued to allow an organisation that covered up the molestation and rape of small children, that enslaved young women who committed the sin of getting pregnant, that thought so little of their infants that they dumped their bodies in a septic tank, to educate our children.

I don't think it will take 100 years for people to be completely perplexed and horrified by that.

NomadicGray

grizzly wrote: »

The idea that we pump a volatile gas into many homes - to folks in the future might sound crazy.

I see no reason we won't be even more insane than this

biko

That our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic spoon, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash a metal spoon when you’re done with it.

Promac

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

That we continued to allow an organisation that covered up the molestation and rape of small children, that enslaved young women who committed the sin of getting pregnant, that thought so little of their infants that they dumped their bodies in a septic tank, to educate our children.

I don't think it will take 100 years for people to be completely perplexed and horrified by that.

I think it's pretty horrifying already.

A Neurotic

Smoking tobacco.

"No psychotropic effect, it left a horrible smell lingering on the user, and for a good few years at the end we'd figured out it had a decent chance of knocking years/decades off of your life but we did it anyway. Sure it was grand with a cup of coffee. And it was great for relieving nicotine addiction... caused entirely by... smoking..."

Bafucin

That we never took the powers that be into hand.

Whether it be the church the banks or the politicians or even ourselves on or binge of house buying. We never stood up to them all.

We just were too embarrassed to say water charges were wrong.

Why did we not say no?

Dice75

25 years ago I was the Remote Control.

Now we press buttons.

In 25 years time they will laugh at the concept of TV.

ardle1

That people where allowed to walk down our main streets out off their heads on God knows what! and they weren't even picked up and thrown in a cell or drunk tank until they sobered up!?!?..........

evolving_doors

Dice75 wrote: »

25 years ago I was the Remote Control.

Now we press buttons.

In 25 years time they will laugh at the concept of TV.

In 100 years they will laugh at pressing buttons.

Sunglasses Ron

meoklmrk91 wrote: »

That we continued to allow an organisation that covered up the molestation and rape of small children, that enslaved young women who committed the sin of getting pregnant, that thought so little of their infants that they dumped their bodies in a septic tank, to educate our children.

I don't think it will take 100 years for people to be completely perplexed and horrified by that.

In 100 years we will still have An Garda Sch and health boards. We will also more than likely have Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, albeit possibly differently named by then.

All of these organisations had a hand in all of the above scandals, and yet people will be more horrified at the church having had what is little more than an honorary leadership role in our schools in the 2000's?


I often wonder will we have a cashless society by then, card only (or probably some type of payment chip integrated into our wristwatch by then!)

I hope not, I detest paying for anything on card.

Adamantium

If we ever do manage to get off get world hundreds of years (and it's looking unlikely) the space shuttle is going to look like a station wagon from one of those 90'd disaster movies stuck on a motorway as the wave is incoming.

Even think now in this world, the immense differences in our own times, refugees, amazonian raintribes, North Korean medievil living and then we have astronauts like Chris Hadfield at the very edge of what's possible, superhuman in effect.

A lot of us living above the poverty line and having education, might as well be from another time of human history.

TCarl Sagan said that some of the most remote human tribes, knew almost nothing of the modern world, politics (nor did they want to), or conveniences/technology, but the one thing they all knew was that men had been to the moon.

That is got to seem like gods/magic to them

pickarooney

biko wrote: »

That our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic spoon, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash a metal spoon when you’re done with it.

I reckon they'll be baffled that someone could waste something as precious as water on washing cutlery.

Toby Take a Bow

pickarooney wrote: »

I reckon they'll be baffled that someone could waste something as precious as water on washing cutlery.

Their heads would probably explode at the amount of water we use to create plastic so.

40now

Ouch...OP you've just hurt my brain.

Arthur Beesley

grizzly wrote: »

What things that we take for granted now, would be really hard to get our heads around 100 years from now?

I was thinking about that story of the house in north city Dublin exploding. The idea that we pump a volatile gas into many homes - to folks in the future might sound crazy.

Try explaining any of the following in the hospital emergency room:

- Burning the arse off yourself when trying to light a fart.

- Getting your lad stuck in the Dyson.

- 'Accidentally' getting something stuck up your arse.

Ted_YNWA

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Try explaining any of the following in the hospital emergency room:

- Burning the arse off yourself when trying to light a fart.

- Getting your lad stuck in the Dyson.

- 'Accidentally' getting something stuck up your arse.

I slipped & fell.

Capt'n Midnight

grizzly wrote: »

What things that we take for granted now, would be really hard to get our heads around 100 years from now?

I was thinking about that story of the house in north city Dublin exploding. The idea that we pump a volatile gas into many homes - to folks in the future might sound crazy.

200 years ago they were pumping gas into homes.

Reedsie

grizzly wrote: »

What things that we take for granted now, would be really hard to get our heads around 100 years from now?

I was thinking about that story of the house in north city Dublin exploding. The idea that we pump a volatile gas into many homes - to folks in the future might sound crazy.

I think the fact that we light an actual open fire in the house to keep warm will baffle future generations.

corkgsxr

Electric showers.

daily we stand in something that could kill you in a fraction of a second.

Its basically a kettle on the wall.

19543261

I dont think we'll be any wiser than now. We'll continue to repeat the same mistakes over and over.