On the other hand, at some future age when most cars drive themselves at safe and sound speeds, these throwbacks to what might be considered a golden age of motoring could well be highly valued for their sheer audacity.
Now it is the centre of a space race to mine rare minerals to fuel our future - smart phones, space-age solar panels and possibly even a future colony of Earthlings.
In rich countries, the cost of financing pay-as-you-go state pension schemes will impose a huge tax burden on future workers as populations age.
The government announced in this year's Budget that it wanted to create a new, automatic mechanism for future increases in the pension age, based on regular, independent reviews.
The target-date funds which are claiming a growing share of 401(k) dollars use a similar system to determine asset allocation, only a date in the future is used rather than age.
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However, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, has some reservations.
It's that role, perhaps, that has made Schmidt's new book, "The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business, " so widely anticipated.
It's an estimate of the age by which half of people born today will have died, assuming today's mortality rates at each age persist in the future at the same level.
They are the authors of " The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business, " from which this essay is adapted, to be published on April 23 by Alfred A. Knopf.
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The airline is negotiating an increase in its retirement age and a cap on future payments.
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But from Mr Chirac's point of view, Mr Balladur's age means he is no future threat.
It was 1988, and at age 22 he saw the future lay in telecommunications.
Investors should not try to anticipate future market valuation based on the average age of U.S. investors.
Fortunately for Chu and The Morning Benders, "Promises" signals a bright future ahead, even as the ravages of age beckon.
Also, retirement at 60 will still be an option if future staff wish to fund retirement at that age by making higher contributions.
Caveat: If Elaine becomes disabled and is unable to work to age 63 or 64, her future requires even more planning.
As a child, I was inspired by my third-grade teacher, who believed children are the future and who challenged us at that young age to create a better world.
We're immediately halving that so that parents won't be under the same pressure, and we're also taking a step in a direction which I personally think is important, of acknowledging that students should be seen as independent at the age of 18 and developing their future lives on that basis.
He has been dubbed a future superstar since he turned pro in 2007 at age 17.
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Michelle Mitchell, charity director of Age UK - which campaigned for the future of cheques, welcomed a review.
They want someone else to suffer it, preferably someone in the future, someone who is not yet of voting age.
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In a June 2007 interview in Advertising Age, Neuharth was asked about the future of printed newspapers amid the upheavals in the news business.
Mr Abulafia is too conscientious a historian to speculate much about the future, or even to prejudge how the modern age will fit into the sweep of Mediterranean history.
So, for a guy in his early thirties who blogs about future technology and wrote his first program at the age of five, I can be a little stodgy about technology sometimes.
In the Imagination Age, we are attempting to create the future we can imagine.
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Instead we are gradually raising the eligibility age to make sure it is there for future generations.
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When children are allowed to develop their mental abilities at a young age, it can be very productive in future.
We will change just as much in the future as we have in the past, regardless of age, gender, and economic standing.
The future of the stadium now appears to hinge on the age-old conundrum of whether track and field can share with Premier League football.
Ryan would empower workers under age 55 today when they retire in the future with the choice of a private plan competing alongside traditional Medicare.
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