The Century of Millions

The Century of Millions This is the era, the century of Millions, the 21st Century. When we talk, we talk in millions such as: the ship I just sailed on is six-million pounds. The moves nowadays cost between 1 and 100 million of dollars. We think of space in millions of miles, and our ancestors of being millions of years old. We want to make a million dollars in our lifetime, or perhaps in one check. We talk of millions of people in big cities, and millions of kilowatts to light that city up. And the armed forces of being a million or two strong. When you get three-million air miles you get a gift, when you get the Nobel Prize a million dollars, if it is not a million, it’s not worthy of talking about. The movie star gets $20-million per movie now, and the football player the same. Actually, by the mid half of the 21st century, I think it will be in billions, everything in billons. When I was a kid it was in thousands, and I suppose my grandfather saw life in hundreds. What will my grandchildren calculate life in, perhaps the trillions, our National Dept, is close to that now, perhaps by 2060, it will be normal to have a debt of such an enormous amount, if indeed we last that long.