The original message I was commenting on was more about where technology could be in 50 years. HOPEFULLY, the scenario you paint with the complete depletion of all natural resources is MUCH further away from us than that. However, if you see that 4th horseman of the appocolypse trotting in over the horizon, do be a sport & post it on here so we'll know. <g>
Just playing... I totally get your point.

Oh, and sweet deal on that govt. funded College aid. I'd have killed for that. University prices keep going up, and it just seems that getting any substancial assistance is harder & harder to come by. TONS of people waiting in the wings to LOAN it to you though!

>>I cannot imagine. I just hope I'm still around to see it, because then it'll be my turn to remind the teenagers about 'how easy they have it' & make them roll their eyes at stories about 'when I was young'. :)
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>I'm not so sure they will have it so easy cf. us. I think adults today are members of the post-war blessed generations, used to unlimited personal transport, cheap air flights to anywhere, power at the fingertips, constant running water, a/c, many privileges. Think about when the oil and gas runs out, when nations starts disputing and even warring over access to water (I once saw a TV prog that showed there is a mere, I think, 20 cubic km of fresh drinking water for the whole Earth's popn. - and we know how that is burgeoning).
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>I know this wasn't the case in the US but when I went to college we got a govt. grant (bursary) for maintenance (to live on), travelling expenses, help with paying for housing, free tuition, unemployment benefit (welfare) for during the vacations. Now students get none of these. I feel that MY generation of students "never had it so good"
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>So when the future teens roll their eyes it may be accompanied with "What? you had your OWN CAR? You mean you didn't have to go to the car pool?"