Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Technology

As someone who grew up in an era where I remember the following:
Black and white TV
Changing the channel (manually!)
Transistor radios, AM only!
only (3) network channels that went off the air at midnight
dial telephones
the advent of 8 Track tapes
men landing on the moon
Spending $25 for a "plain jane" calculator in High School
8mm movie cameras
and the list goes on and on...

The following article tells which new technologies will be obsolete before a child born today has the chance to use them!

As my newborn son grows to match the size of a mid-tower desktop, a large-screen TV and eventually a server rack, I can’t help but think about all the gadgets he won’t even remember using that were so important to his dad. I’m not talking about long dead-and-buried technologies such as the VHS recorder or the 35mm camera. Rather, I’m thinking about devices and concepts most of us use today that will fall out of mainstream use so soon that he either won’t remember them, or will only have very hazy memories of having lived with them.

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