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Thursday, February 10, 2005
Obsolescence
My wife and I are already falling into the cliche where we're fascinated with what our kids take for granted that we never had, or that they've never heard of. Cell phones are an obvious example of somethign they take for granted, but they've also never heard of a phone cord. Have no idea what that even means.
So now I'm trying to predict - or guess is more like it - what their kids will experience in these areas. Here are a couple of my guesses:
- It's already possible for kids today to have no idea what a VHS tape is (our kids have 'em). But I think our grandkids will not see any media whatsoever. Everything will be hard-drive based. No CDs, DVDs, anything. Just downloads & uploads. And central server storage.
- Toilet flushers, water faucet knobs, possibly even light switches. It'll all be automated. A lot of this is standard fare in the workplace right now - can homes be far behind?
That's all I got for now. I know, pretty bold. - served up by Ralphie @ 11:54 AM
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Our grandkids will all wear upsidedown fish bowls with metal antenae on their heads. Cars will fly. Metalic androids will clean our house very efficiently but their speech for some reason will be blemished with the occasional beeps and dings. All combat will be done with phasers. Doors will open and close automatically, but no engineer will be able to silence that annoying "ssswwwsh" when they do.
Oh. You wanted serious.
Our generation will survive into our 80s routinely and work into our 70s -- not necessarily out of financial necessity but because we prefer work to retirement.
I agree with you that all information storage media will become invisible. This will make our kids have no clue what the geezers mean when they say "sounding like a broken record". Vison correction surgery will become commonplace and will be done as soon as the patient's eye stops growing, so eyeglasses will only be for children , and contact lenses, like analog music recording, will cease to exist.
Our generation will survive into our 80s routinely and work into our 70s -- not necessarily out of financial necessity but because we prefer work to retirement.
I agree with you that all information storage media will become invisible. This will make our kids have no clue what the geezers mean when they say "sounding like a broken record". Vison correction surgery will become commonplace and will be done as soon as the patient's eye stops growing, so eyeglasses will only be for children , and contact lenses, like analog music recording, will cease to exist.
One day my parents explained to my seven-year-old son that they had no TV when they were his age. My son asked if they at least had the Internet.
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