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It's not unusual to see such timeframes in the context of nuclear decommissioning. For example: "At around 2116, care and maintenance will end and any remaini
by dane-pgp 5y ago
It's not unusual to see such timeframes in the context of nuclear decommissioning. For example:
"At around 2116, care and maintenance will end and any remaining buildings will be removed and the site returned as close as possible to its original state."[0]
Also, depending on what you mean by "some definite plan", and how young you are, your pension plan may include an estimated retirement date later than 2070.
[0] https://www.anglesey-today.com/decommissioning-wylfa.html https://www.anglesey-today.com/decommissioning-wylfa.html
- shoto_io 5y agoI think that’s about the time that interplanetary space travel starts in Star Trek. I always thought that’s way too early and the whole time should be starting 1,000 years later.
- guerrilla 5y agoSeems like Blade Runner did even worse.
- shoto_io 5y agoIndeed. I don’t get it though. Why not push every timeline out by a safety margin of hundreds/thousand years?
- dane-pgp 5y agoPersonally I would have a hard time suspending disbelief if a story set in 2200 didn't have super-human AI and all diseases cured. Similarly there should be no pollution or over-population, at least in first world countries. For humanity to avoid achieving those things, there would have to be some significant barriers to progress that we don't know about yet, or a fairly disastrous collapse, which would limit the possible stories that could be told. I suppose that setting a story thousands of years into the future allows there to have been multiple collapses and renaissances, but I'm not convinced that such a path is as likely as a permanent collapse or reaching some sort of uninterruptible paradise state.
- guerrilla 5y agoI just think of it as an alternate timeline now
- shoto_io 5y agoNice. That’s great trick
- another-dave 5y agoGiven only 58 years from the first flight to getting someone in space, they probably thought another 100 years of innovation sounded OK! Crazy looking back to think that Star Trek originally aired before the moon landing.
- Retric 5y agoI think the retirement thing is a stretch. A 16 year old might see a retirement age of 2070 using a retirement age of 65.
- jltsiren 5y agoSomeone born in the late 1990s might expect to retire around 2070. Given the population structure in wealthy countries, early retirement at 65 is no longer feasible for most people in the younger generations.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoPeople from my mother's generation often started working when they were just 16. So when I see someone talking about them retiring at 65 it's important to keep that in mind.
- mech422 5y agoI was actually working 30+ hours/week from 12-13 years old, and I'm GenX. We're slated to retire at 67. P.S. - I was doing data entry for local real estate companies and simple BASIC 'cash register' setups for local businesses.
- tiagod 5y agoCalling 65 years old early retirement is insulting...
- cyberlurker 5y agoNot sure if joking but that’s generally the age where pension kicks in/an individual can start pulling from tax advantaged retirement accounts.
- Retric 5y agoIn the US you can start pulling from retirement accounts in your 40’s as long as it’s even distributions for the rest of your life.