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To: Lazamataz
We are so screwed.

I agree with you Laz but I'm now at an age that when AI becomes reality, I'll either be dead or ready to pull the plug on myself......

With that being said, I'd really love to see what the future holds for us 50 - 100 years from now......

Back around 1999 I spent the arrival Friday night of a pheasant hunting trip to the N.W. corner of Kansas in a B & B owned by a 94 year old lady. The following morning, being an early riser, I had the pleasure of spending about two hours drinking coffee and listening to her account of growing up in that area when she was a child. Her family's only transportation was a horse and buggy, her father drilled a well via a post and a mule and she lived thru the great dust bowl of the 1930's.............

In retrospect, that three day trip would have been better served had I stayed at her B & B and just listened to her stories and played yahtze............

We can only wonder at what she experienced during her lifetime and what is in store for us in the remainder of ours.........

164 posted on 07/11/2015 5:01:49 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

I had the experience of listening about life in the 1900’s through the 1920’s in NYC, where my great-aunt Rosemary grew up. She told about the oil-lamp lighting crew that went around town and lit the street lights every night. She related about how the town was thick with horse crap until the car and the trolly car started making city horses obsolete. She told us about the very first phones... you had to crank them to generate the electricity to get a call started. She, herself, grew up to be a ‘board girl’... a woman who served in the telephone exchange offices. She said they were always very hot and it was horrible work.


166 posted on 07/11/2015 5:17:39 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Go away. Seriously.)
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