Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Useless Information #1
The oldest woman in the world recently died. She was 114.
I find that amazing. I find the changes that have happened in my brief life to be amazing. Modern video games make the Atari 2600 equivalents seem like cave paintings. My first computer had a "whopping" 10 MBs hard drive space (and ran a C/PM operating system). We used to drive a Ford Pinto.
That's peanuts compared to what Ms. Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan has seen. She was 22 years old when the Titanic sank. She was 27 when WW I ended, and the Communist revolution in Russia happened. She was 50 YEARS OLD when America entered WW II.
When she was born, the normal mode of transportation was horses, and airplanes hadn't even been invented yet.
Amazing, and that's only 100 years. Given that technological progress seems to proceed exponentially, I can't even BEGIN to imagine what the world will be like in 2080.
The oldest woman in the world recently died. She was 114.
I find that amazing. I find the changes that have happened in my brief life to be amazing. Modern video games make the Atari 2600 equivalents seem like cave paintings. My first computer had a "whopping" 10 MBs hard drive space (and ran a C/PM operating system). We used to drive a Ford Pinto.
That's peanuts compared to what Ms. Ramona Trinidad Iglesias Jordan has seen. She was 22 years old when the Titanic sank. She was 27 when WW I ended, and the Communist revolution in Russia happened. She was 50 YEARS OLD when America entered WW II.
When she was born, the normal mode of transportation was horses, and airplanes hadn't even been invented yet.
Amazing, and that's only 100 years. Given that technological progress seems to proceed exponentially, I can't even BEGIN to imagine what the world will be like in 2080.
