[Miami Herald: Oh baby, it’s a long life]:

Today’s babies will be tomorrow’s centenarians. A new report says that reaching the age of 100 may become ordinary for most American babies born since 2000. How will living for a century affect our kids? And what quality of life awaits those who live this long?

An interesting article with some facts about the growing number of centenarians in Japan, the US, and other first-world countries.

Japan’s quickly-growing  older population has already begun changing the how it’s society views them. There are an increasing number lifestyle products to make the lives of the extremely elderly easier.

But, what will happen when old people are more healthy, still self-sufficient, presumably still employed, and otherwise active? Will their longer experience and accumulated wealth become an insurmountable obstacle for newer generations?

Fashions in ideologies also tend to shift when the older generations die - will our politics become stagnant with the over-repeated ideas of the older giants who refuse to die or retire? Will the younger voice be drowned out and ignored?