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To: cosmicforce who wrote (455480)	10/18/2020 1:39:20 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 542482

There is a second factor that I recognized here - the opposite nature of change and lifespans. People live longer and change moves faster. My greatgrandmother was 12 years old when Custer was killed yet saw people walk on the moon. My mom knew a time where horse-drawn carts still delivered milk and saw the rise of the Internet. She could even use a computer until the last few years of her life. She started having trouble with the rate of change and was flustered every time Windows or the browser did an upgrade. I will have lived from a time where rockets first went into orbit and currently we are able to manipulate the genes of our fellow species and ourselves. No telling what I'll see in 20-30 more years should I be lucky and healthy enough to appreciate that time. At a time where culture is changing the fastest, our SC is dragging us backwards to the 1940s and 1950s. How is that going to work out for us?