These good old days

Thread Games
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I invite you to think ahead, yes, into the future. Five years hence. One-hundred years hence. You name it. I invite you to begin your entry with “These are the good old days” and finish with your invented realistic or, for more fun, unrealistic premonition.
I hope we can cover all areas of our societies: electronics, communications, fashion, arts, military, medicine, what have you. I will lead with an example.

These are the good old days because babies are not yet born with in-vivo performed first tattoos of their parents’ fingerprints.

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These are the good old days because in the future, any ol’ Straight Doper can do an entry on you own personal thread game. ; )

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These are the good old days, because we can read more than 140 characters.

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Because the sea hasn’t boiled yet.