While the old move with the times, the young dig in their heels

摘要

The worst thing about the future,' said a young friend of mine, 'is that it's so boring. It's always on television and, if you miss that, it's in the Sunday newspapers - what's really interesting is the past. The guys just can't get enough of it. Everyone I know is obsessed with shooting radar into the ground to find old tombs, digging up plague pits, reconstructing Roman cities, X-raying skulls, counting teeth...'. A typical young person's view, I thought. When you get a bit older, I replied, you'll find yourself much more interested in the future. That's when you'll find out the future is entirely created by old people. They didn't send teenagers into space first, you know. The astronauts were middle-aged and even the monkeys were old.