for hundreds of thousands of years humans saw our elders as wise due to their life experiences but in the past century or two its turned to a situation where old people are living in a world completely different than the one they grew up in so their advice is not generally helpful
Thats not a new thing, there’s always been advances in technology, science, and whatever else. 50 years from now we’ll be those clueless old people living in a world we don’t understand.
Chic But the rate of change has been increasing so much. If you were born in 50,000 BC, or even 1000 AD, the lives of your parents and grandparents and your children and grandchildren are pretty much exactly the same as yours. Starting with the industrial revolution, advances in technology and science have increased at an increasing rate. Someone born in 1750 lives in a slightly different world when they're old in 1820; one with trains, gas lighting, and photography. Someone born in 1875 lives in a pretty different world when they're old in 1950; one with electricity and cars. Someone born in 1940 lives in a totally different world when they're old in 2020, one with cell phones giving you any information you want at any time, computers and everything they have brought, and social media. I can only imagine that people around our age (born 1990s) will live in an unimaginably different world when we're old in 2070. Imagine all of our jobs have been replaced by AI and everyone spends all their time doing things they're passionate about. Imagine most diseases have been cured (maybe even aging itself). Idk I think the world when we're old is going to be completely unrecognizable from the one we're living in today.
