Friday, January 1, 2010

Goodbye...2000-2009


Yes, my 2 year old son has a laptop. Granted, it's a Fisher-Price.


But as my son plays with his toy cars and reads his picture books the same way the past few generations of children in our families have done, I consider the rapid evolution of the last ten years in terms of every day tech. 


In the last decade we've seen the demise of encyclopedias, ground lines, phone books, catalogs, film-cameras, CDs, wires, movies with real actors, movies with real effects, fax machines, ideas over 140 characters, hand-written letters, newspapers, snail mail, making money off of videos you're in, video stores, books, actually going to college and not just going to "class" in your underwear, and a host of other taskmasters. It really is amazing what a few dedicated humans invented, and billions more use. AND it's insane that, in reality, Google and Wal-Mart pretty much rule the world, and could save the world if they wanted to. But that's for another essay.




So in 2020 will we be saying "remember the internet?" or "remember iTunes?" or "remember cars and diapers?" Probably Maybe. Or: "Remember Earth?"


With the tv off and toys quieted, my son and I talk, sans technology except the language that we share, which is ageless.

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