Yahoo featured a video news story on their home page yesterday about a 108 year old blogger (note - the woman speaks and someone types her posts - regardless if you consider this blogging she is creating content for the web).

In 50 years I imagine this news will not be feature worthy, as the generations that have had the internet for a good portion of their life will think of such activities as necessity regardless of age (living to an old age will still be impressive but not the blogging and internet use - which is impressive now for that age).

Here is the headline 50 years from now “108 Year Old Runs Chicago Marathon in Record Heat. Read the Runners Story on His Blog.” (In 50 years the blogging part is expected).

3 Necessities For This Headline To Happen:

• Medicine / health conscious behavior continues to prolong life span (should happen)
• The Earth keeps getting warmer (should happen but not a good thing - try to stop this one)
• The internet is still being used (I believe this one to be more certain than the others)

For the modern day - blogging (or being affiliated with a blog) at 108 is an impressive story both for age and involvement with a form of online media that has only been around for less than 10 years (blogging as we now know it).

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