[castor]

Sometimes, don't you think, it looks like this particular time in history isn't the nicest you could hope to live your life in? All the upcoming environmental "problems", overpopulation just worsening day-by-day, all kinds of freak wars threatening to get out of hand, great technological/scientific advances almost in your grasp, but not quite, etc...

But then again, would any other time be better, all things considered? If so, which time, why?
I tried to answer this today (succumbed to boredom at work), but came to the conclusion that it would (most likely) be only ****tier to be born in any imagineable past or future.. But that can't be true either, or can it?

[Blue Lion]

Better for what exactly? Living longer? Being more important? Having more free time to goof off?

[iamzack]

Better for you.

[Blue Lion]

To be lazy? To do something important? To be smarter? To live longer?

You can't possibly give a wrong answer to this.

[Dark RevenantX]

I think he means which time you'd prefer to be born in.  I choose to skip this ****hole.

[BloodEagle]

* BloodEagle wonders what the unit of measure is.

[Blue Lion]

Days, obviously.

[Turambar]

in the yeeeeeeear twentyfivehundreeeeeeeeed

[Mobius]

IMO those options need to be more specific. Anything like "25+ years ago", "25 years in the future", "Over a century ago", "One thousand years ago" would be better.

Well, in any case, I'd say both <60+ years earlier and 100+> later. I like how the world was many decades ago...although the World Wars were terrible events, people were still decent because the number of idiotic/emo/stupid/etc. etc. people was quite lower. I kind of like old people because they grew up in a more coherent world.

Speaking of the second option, the reason is simple: space exploration.

[Turambar]

Yeah, ideally I'd go for 2200s or 2300s.  I want to see technological singularity, AI, space exploration, and the results of theoretical physics.

[The E]

Yeah, ideally I'd go for 2200s or 2300s.  I want to see technological singularity, AI, space exploration, and the results of theoretical physics.

Maybe I've been reading the wrong books, but a singularity doesn't seem to be that desirable, really.

[Mobius]

How do you know that Earth would still be intact in 2200-2300?

[The E]

"Being born" implies that there are lifeforms around that can give birth, nothing more. Being self-aware (or in this solar system) is strictly optional. 

[Mobius]

"Being born" is generic, "on Earth" is specific. That's the interesting part...

[The E]

Which wasn't part of the original question, if you recall. Oh, and earth (as in soil) can also be interpreted as generic...

[Mobius]

Someone may wish to be born on the Moon or Mars, you know...

[The E]

Yes, I do. (For the record, I marked the +-0 option here.) And space colonization is vastly overrated, IMHO.

[Rodo]

I want to fly the perseus myself!!!! so +500 years will be enought?

[Mobius]

I want to fly the perseus myself!!!! so +500 years will be enought?

No, because in a matter of decades all combatant craft will be unmanned.

[The E]

That's what they said 30 years ago, and it still didn't happen. I think that, if space combat ever happens, it won't look like anything we can imagine right now.