Do we need more time?

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   With my extra five hours I'd try and do all the things I hadn't had time to do!

the question is do I want the extra five hours?

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Melanie Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 10	Quote Reply Topic: Do we need more time? Posted: 13 Feb 2009 at 9:44am
	With my extra five hours I'd try and do all the things I hadn't had time to do! the question is do I want the extra five hours?

Tim Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 9	Quote Reply Posted: 16 Feb 2009 at 4:06pm
	By the time that you get this time, at the end of your life, I just hope that I can appreciate it! Medical science will have had a great opportunity to advance by then, at least I hope it will have had time to advance my life by then.

Melanie Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 10	Quote Reply Posted: 17 Feb 2009 at 4:12pm
	I'm all for medical science breakthroughs - I just wonder if we are prolonging life for the sake of it rather than working to help people under 90 have a more productive life....

Tim Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 9	Quote Reply Posted: 20 Feb 2009 at 12:06pm
	I think that medical science in the future will not only prolong life, but will focus on improving it too. For example, a lot of effort is, quite rightly, being expended on research into Alzheimers. Some feel that there is a genuine possibility of a cure in the not to distant future, which will lift a huge burden on a great many people. Life for life's sake, probably not. But if there can be quality of life too, then absolutely.

Melanie Members Profile Find Members Posts Admin Group Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 10	Quote Reply Posted: 24 Feb 2009 at 10:06am
	ok - you've convinced me - or maybe I'm just having a better day! Have you ever used Twitter?

Tim Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 9	Quote Reply Posted: 26 Feb 2009 at 4:21pm
	No I haven't, but I've just heard about it with regard to Stephen Fry's twitterings. Actually, it was Gemma that alerted me to it. I can see the principle, but don't particularly want to receive lots of messages from people I don't know. S. Fry has now had more than 100,000, most of which look like the ramblings of idiots with nothing better to do with their time. And with regard to finding the best place to eat or whatever the sort of questions that twitter is supposed to be good for, well, I think that I would just rather find out by myself. Perhaps its just as well that life expectancy is increasing. You'll need the time just to sort out all the twittering!