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But I do not.
So far my Christmas has consisted of staring at 3 balloons that I was given nearly 2 months ago, which are still floating near my ceiling. It has become an endurance issue. Will they last longer or will I. I wonder how long a balloon can retain its helium. At the current rate I am guessing better than 4 months
Also I have been thinking about education. It seems like there is a full court press to underfund and defund it. On the one hand, I hate to see kids screwed that way. On the other, I suppose at some point it will be a boon for those of us who received an education in the waning days. It came as quite a surprise to me that my computer skills are still better than those of the incoming generation. I figured at some point as they became young adults they would stop bringing me problems, and I would have to start asking them questions, just as I did with my elders what seems like forever ago.
Have we peaked as a people? It scares me to think that my generation may be the "most adept" at dealing with modern life. The ones that come after us... I worry.
In the mean time, a question that I have been pondering for some time. Imagine that we could solve the resource issues our modern world faces. With things like rooftop solar fuel creation being pondered, it is not unimaginable that we could find a way to live at our current level of energy squandering and that other problems could be similarly solved without driving the earth further down into some sort of super ecological disaster.
Anyhow, imagine that we found a way to make the modern American lifestyle sustainable, spread to the entire planet. And then that we kinda took a break from all the innovation and tech growth that we have been seeing. What would humans look like in a thousand years? What sort of evolutionary pressures do modern life provide?
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