A bit later than now, likely. As it is I'm probably going to live long enough to see the development of nanobots and the like that cure diseases and physical ailments and the effects of aging, and then die just in time to not enjoy them. I'll be the last crippled old wretch to not get immortality.
They didn't.

Yeah. All the futuristic stuff. Maybe I just want to see a billion years in the future. What will earth and the universe be like?

If I was to pick a birth year ... 1955. Live in the modern era. Hit 18 right when the Vietnam war ended and reach prime earning age during the most prosperous period in the country's history while probably not living long enough to see it all fall apart.

Of course, if the future is going to look like Star Trek, I'd like to live then. If it's gonna look like Terminator though ...

I love reading about these time periods, but would never want to live in them. Not with their standards of medicine and dentistry. No way.

Ask again in 50 years and I'll have a definite answer.

Now is probably about as good as it gets. The future is going to be really terrible, because we can't get our [censored] together to do anything about global warming. And being born much earlier would also have been less good, due to greater social problems, poorer medicine, etc.

When man first colonises the moon/ another planet. OR, when we travel to new solar systems OR first contact.

Either that or the start of WWIII to see how it happens

I wouldn't've minded being born a few generations later. Not too many, but maybe 2. (and yes, that word I made is pretty awesome.)

Ive lived in a period before the Internet and when computer were black screens with green text and dot matrix printers and not even that, i saw colour tv introduced, we owned a black and white tv that was full of valves, vinyl records. As much as people look back and say id have loved to have lived during that time, if you went back in a time machine you would see so many things you would miss, and basically you would think to yourself why were people so dumb not to see so many things that have been done now and you know is basic common sense.

The only things i dont understand are peoples fascinations with so much pointless technology, its not as if its needed people survived without it for decades, and what stands out for me was sitting through the Hobbit, and people texting during the film, how did any human live without mobile phones.

If your basing your view of the 1950's off tv and movies then thats not what the 50's were like, its like they say, a Norman Rockwell painting, it gives the best image possible, but it would be like going into the future and portraying the GFC as a glorious time to live with wealth and prosperity, and no unemployment or poverty.

Not really. I might've liked to have been born about 8-10 years earlier tho, so I could have experienced a lot of my fave shows and music a bit more first-hand.

But being a female, I don't think I'd want to be from an era where options for females were a lot more limited, socially and career wise, not to mention birth control.

Agreed.. Things were still pretty innocent (except for the whole threat of thermonuclear war thingy); I could leave the house Saturday morning and come home before dinner and no one thought it was weird that I had no contact with mom and dad and no one necessarliy knew or cared where we were. Pre-teens walking or biking many miles to the grocery or shopping mall wasn't a big deal and we learned to deal with things on our own.

As we grew up technology really started to boom until we had cell phones and internet as advlts (maybe young advlts). I think now growing up with the internet and cell phones would have been strange; too much connection with the entire world and not enough connection with my next-door neighbor. I am pretty sure most of the nonsense, shenanigans and adventures we had are very, very rare to my kids' generation (17&18 years old).

I second that

I'm happy with the time in which I was born... I just wish I could do it over and get it right this time.

Preferably one where medical science was more advanced instead of wait until the problem becomes more noticeable.

Yeah, i know what you eman. But if that was possible, none of us would ever get past the age of 20

But no, i've no interest in living past times, and i have this weird preoccupation that this is the highest point of human history, and it's all downhill from here

I remember fights breaking out at school over who was the better band between the Bay City Rollers and The Osmonds. We would've been about five or six years old.

This. I wouldn't like to live anywhere in the 20th century. Though, in, say - 50 - years time, people will look back on how we were and notice all the mistakes, and the little nicks in society. Whether things will be better in the future or not, I don't know.

Another reason of mine.

I agree. And I guess where you live plays a part in it too; culturally, socially, etc.

No, aside from the latest generation which I call "YOLOTards", I love living in the digital era. Although I would love to live in Westeros, as long as I where a noble. But that isn't an era, it is a fantasy world.

It's a bit of a mixed bag, really. I remember the days Before Internet (or rather "before www"), back then it did feel that there was a real information drought: when we lived close to a good library it wasn't quite so bad (but still not great), but once we moved to a town with a crap library it was frustrating trying to find out anything about anything.

On the other hand, your comment about the freedoms we enjoyed: I feel sad that it seems a thing of the past, all this stuff where we'd wander off for hours, sometimes a whole bunch of us under-12s would get a bus to the sea-front without needing an army of chaperones to protect us or an e-leash to monitor our whereabouts. And, yeah, we all knew who our neighbours were: in the days before the paedo-hysteria took root, about the biggest thing we had to worry about was staying clear of the grumpy old sod down our street who'd be complaining to our parents if we so much as sneezed in his general direction!

I like having largely unrestricted access to information and I love computers. I'm very happy to have been born when I was born.

Only those who have a romantic view of the past or the future, make the mistake of wanting to live in that era.

I'm seventeen years old.

I say old-fashioned things like 'stove', instead of cooker and stuff. (Yes, this language is VERY dated in England)

I drink out of a tankard, not a pint glass.

I listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-S1o5OmMMo, like my dad and his friends.

I dress in Iron Maiden and Stereophonics shirts.

I've smoked once. Through a pipe. (No not drugs! Tobacco through a proper pipe!)

I can't aim too well with a gun, but I could easily cut off some limbs with a sword. Where this skill comes from, I'll never know. My Roman roots? Who knows?

I was clearly born in a wrong time. Where I'm meant to be? I don't know. Maybe a little bit of me belongs everywhere

Everybody in America says "stove." Words like "cooker" are British stuff.

You mean correct English

In England, I speak in very old-fashioned ways. That was one example

"Correct" English?

MURICAN ENGLISH IS BEST ENGLISH.