If You Are at a Loose End in Your Third Age, You Could Go Back to University ; Comment Mike Baker's Secret Society

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AT SOME point, let's just call it 'the future', society is going to stop treating retired people like old fruit.

Right now it can't work out what use they have, although it suspects there must be one, and wishes they would just shuffle over so that the younger, more marketable fruit can move to the front.

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If You Are at a Loose End in Your Third Age, You Could Go Back to University ; Comment Mike Baker's Secret Society

But what does society know? It has shown itself on numerous occasions to be no great judge of character (or fruit). And anyway, somewhat ironically, society itself is getting older. Who is it to judge? Boffins who are in charge of announcing these things announced some time ago that from 2011 they expect the mean age of society to be above 40 (that's mean as in average, by the way, not the age at which one becomes mean. For some people, that sets in much earlier). By 2031 in this cou...

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