Have you ever checked the garage where your parents dumped all the old junk (I doubt your place has an attic), or an storage abandoned room and thought, "What the fuck is all this crap they used back then"?
Back in the day the junk was everyday normal stuff. Now they're all outdated and useless. So it makes one wonder, what do we use today that end up in the garage ten years from now? Imagine when you grow up and have a family of your own, you check out what trash you have and you find a Nintendo Wii, or an iPod, completely workable, but just outdated, sitting there with a thick layer of dust and maybe a dead moth on it.
Generation after generation has thought that nothing could possibly be better than the technology and commodities of its time, and each time it has been disproved. I wonder what video games, transport, PCs and mp3/mp4 players will be like when I'm 70 or 80. I'll be saying to my grandchildren, "Back when I was a kid we had iPods and Playstation 3s, not your hovering cars and mp7 players crap!"
Actually, when my generation grows old, the elderly will still have just as much knowledge as the younger generations, knowing just as well how to use computers and have the same interest in technology. Unless, of course, something else comes along, which surpasses everything beyond our knowledge, even more complex than what we're accustomed to, and we're stuck like our own grandparents, but instead of doing whatever the hell they do, we dish out our old iPods while the younger kids laugh at us.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
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Hmm... I never actually thought about this, in a few years time I'll be throwing out my PS3, laptop, iPod, everything...
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