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A school friend's father had a similar conversation in Detroit in the 1960s. The hollowing-out of inner-urban America has been happening for a long time. It's the inevitable corollary of spacious sub… (View Post)

There's a sequence in 2001 when Heywood Floyd, on Space Station Five, has a video call with his daughter on Earth, after which the operator chimes in and tells him what it cost. Even Arthur C Clarke … (View Post)

I sometimes cite my grandfather in this context. He was born in 1885, long before cars or aeroplanes, but he lived to watch men walk on the moon. Didn't seem unduly impressed. (View Post)

Patient: How can I live to be 100? Doctor: Give up smoking, drinking and sex. Patient: Are you sure I'll live to 100? Doctor: No, but it will feel like. (View Post)

I'm still working at 74 and loving it. I am, of course, ridiculously rich in consequence, not least because I haven't been paying golf club membership dues for nine boring years. (View Post)