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What will be the next generation's "Where were you?"?

People of my grandparents' generation were the ones who said, "Where were you when Pearl Harbor was attacked?"
People of my parents' generation were the ones who asked, "Where were you when JFK was shot?"
People of my generation were the ones who asked, "Where were you on 9/11/2001?"

Think you can predict the future? What major catastrophe/news event will be the "Where were you" for the next generation?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "Where were you when you heard that Paris Hilton won the Presidential election?" "Where were you when Israel detonated a nuclear weapon in Jerusalem, just as a million-man Arab army was overrunning the place?" "Where were you when world leaders finally admitted the oil had almost run out, multiplying the cost by a factor of 50 overnight?"

The nature of 'where were you?' questions is that they concern the totally unexpected events that define larger trends in history... so they're not predictable. Always fun to speculate, though.