In the Oct. Wired magazine they had a small blurb about things we’ll say to our grandkids. Some of the good ones were:
- Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters
- There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down
- TV contests gave cash to whoever could store the most data in their head
- Well, the screens were bigger, but they only showed the movies at certain times of day
- You used to keep the files on your computer, and you had to go back to the same computer to access them!
I thought it was an interesting topic. Some more i thought of:
- Even though they were bigger, our cell phones were only for making calls
- It seems strange, but new artists didn’t pay us to listen to their music. In fact, we had to buy the music from them
- When i was a kid, when we looked at cars we used to think “the bigger the better”
- People used to think that being tan was cool
- When kids were born, first of all they didn’t grab a clone for storage but also they had n
o way of not only knowing what hair color or muscle mass they kid would have and some patents didn’t even know if they were having a boy or a girl - We had these things called “TV channels” and we had to order all the channels or none of them. We only had a few hundred of them and you couldn’t search for anything on your TV.
- We used to go to watch the football/baseball game in person. I know it’s crazy but they used to have huge stadiums to watch the game with your own eyes.
What can you think of?
This post really caught my attention. I came up with about 20 responses pretty quickly. Here are a few:
# In my day, health care wasn’t what it is today.
# We used to regularly replace light bulbs.
# There were only two main political parties when I started voting.
# Not many people recycled when I was growing up.
I posted a bunch more of both what I expect and what I hope for on my blog.
Link: http://rrrogers.com/2009/10/18/dear-grandchildren/
We used to have sexual intercourse in person.
We were forced to memorize facts in school.
(I was about to post something about fax machines, but I bet we'll still have to fax stuff to the government for the next 100 years.)
– we used to think nothing about the plastic bags at the grocery store
– global warming? it was all about acid rain.
– local food? organic? no one thought about that
– we used to have long, straight skis
– we would sit in the “back back” of the car
“When I was your age, Pluto was a planet”
“When I was your age, Pluto was a planet”