[mr.miyagi]

..this may seem a weird thread but older generations(60+,on the whole) only tend to do boring things like knitting, card games and ballroom dancing in their spare time to attempt to stimulate the mind (which slowly but surely degrades over time due to lack of activity and new stimuli). just imagine our new digital gaming generation in many years time, now if games don't stimulate your brain than i am a monkeys uncle. our brains would last longer!! proven fact!
now the only reason i'd play cards or crappy board games when i'm ancient is if they were on Mars alongside a newly discovered supermodel species who can only survive on sex.
so if we're all lucky enough to be able to retire or grow really old we can certainly look forward to a minimum of 30 years gaming heaven. what do u think of that....

[[spiewalk]]

I kinda agree, i'd rather go with the whole sex thing thou... Another thing to do is read books, there great for giving the brain a run for it even when your not reading the book you tend to think back and analyze the book, imagine what happens next and how the ending is going to be and what if, what now, and who if? Know what I'm sayin?

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[Sh3ll_Sh0ck]

Mmmmmm sex and games......

[First Man Down v2.0]

Older people don't engage in activities like gaming because their learning ability degenerates rapidly. You've heard the expression, "You can't teach a old dog new tricks." It's hard for them to learn how to play a video game or similar activity because they can't fully grasp and employ the concepts necessary for them to play properly. Of course, there are exceptions.

You say it now, that the young generations of today and of the future will have an easier time manipulating technology, but you and I will be in the same boat that our grandparents are in now - a lot of technology will seem utterly alien to us. The only thing that will help our transition is the fact that we are becoming increasingly apt at predicting where existing technology is going and how it will evolve. This was something people were really unable to do as early as fifty years ago.

I remember explaining e-mail to my 91 year-old uncle. He was absolutely amazed, but couldn't fully understand the technologies involved. He doesn't have any idea what a byte is.

It's too easy to say that technology is going to stagnate, that it's going to be the same, but more advanced. It's easy to think that we'll have the concept of bytes eighty years from now, but it's quite unlikely.

Remember: Charles H. Duell, commissioner in the U.S. Patent Office in 1899 said, "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

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"Meine Ehre heißt Treue"

[belly]

yeah my old comadore 64 zx specky and dragon 32 realy helped stimulate my brain lol

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[poseyj]

i think someone slipped some hallucigens in mr miyagis chow mein!

[BoBoZoBo]

Remember...some of those OLD TIMERS were really doing the shit we just play games about...

[Ydiss]

The human body doesn't degrade because of less brain activity, it does so because after you stop growing your cells reproduce in exactly the same way over and over which eventually means they can't regenerate as effectively as before.

As you cells slowly lose the ability to fix the gradual errors that repetitive regeneration brings they begin to die until they can no longer regenerate.

On a celular level this is a very slow proccess, but once it is widespread your organs begin to fail and then you will eventually die when one or more stops working entirely.

Depressing, huh?

It's an interesting hypothesis (and wildly off-topic ) but just because you keep your brain active doesn't mean it will not degrade after you no longer grow (that is, once you lose the inate ability to learn because your brain cells are no longer able to reproduce exponentially).

In fact, my guess would be that if you spent the majority of your life playing games you'd probably waste away much faster as you aren't using most of the muscle groups in your body at all.

Long life is all about variety.

Well that's what I think anyway





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[Dodd]

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