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Feb 03, 2009, 09:18AM

Time to feel old before your time

Newspapers (as we know them) aren't the only thing that probably won't be around in a generation or so.

A little frightening:

Smokers

At least cigarette smokers. Hell, probably by the time the American government gets around to outlawing smoking for good will be the time that marijuana is legalized and we’ll be trading in our Camels for spliffs. Who knows. But with the number of smokers dropping every year, it won’t be long before much of the Western world has lost its appetite for the brown demon weed altogether. Sure not everyone will quit, but it will become less and less popular, less and less prominent to the point where if you see someone standing on a street corner with smoke coming out of his face, you’ll start to wonder if there’s seriously something mental with him.

Getting lost

With GPS tracking devices, or at least cell tower triangulation devices in cars and mobile phones, it won’t be long before the technology is in your wristwatch, your coffee cup and your shoes. Do you remember the last time you called someone and you got a busy signal? So it will be for your kids and grandkids, where the art of giving directions to someone will be a lost art and trying to leaf through the yellow pages for the nearest coffee shop will be right up there with using clay tablets to write letters. At least your grandkids will still be driving cars, which is more than can be said for their grandchildren, who will probably have completely forgotten how to drive as they lay take a nap on the way to work in their automated cars on invisible rails.

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