I too thought this when I was 26, I'm 36 now. The world won't stop you, but you may also find you just don't care enough to - you have to be spending a lot of t

I too thought this when I was 26, I'm 36 now. The world won't stop you, but you may also find you just don't care enough to - you have to be spending a lot of time interactively engaging in a culture to be native to the memes, and that takes a lot of time that you might want to spend learning about / doing other things. Also starting to realise that my "they can't stop me gaming when I'm 80!" attitude will be self-limited by joint pain at some point... probably in exactly the same way as previous generations, just s/gaming/popular activity of the era/