256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal
The Michael Shermer Show
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Are You Getting Older?
When you're younger, you have a really hard time imagining anything further out than you have a memory of. People who get older are less actively volved as they age in thinking about far futures. Ten per cent of people over 65 say they regularly imagine what the world might be like in ten years. As we age, many of us experience a physical decline or mental decline or loss of loved one. Soif we imagine the futures as being painful, we don't want to think about it,. We think, well, i'm not going to be around for it."
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