Kids and their Toys

April 8, 2008

Been spending time thinking about the generational differences that we have not only with older folks but there are also significant differences already being assumed by the younger generations. This is a bit of rant on an idea I have been watching with my daughter and how her generation is already taking a lot of the conveniences we have recently gotten for granted.

Comment below if you have another thought…would love to hear from you.

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One Response to “Kids and their Toys”

Charlie Trotter said:

April 14th, 2008 at 9:24 am

Our kids have their minds open to a reality you and I, when we were their age, would never have dreamed. The associations (tiny phones with internet surfability, photo, video and relatively affordable) just would have been so far removed from any reasonable thought. And if you had told me when I was a teenager that phones would be as small and as portable and could take photos and video and send them to each other and the web, I would have said, “Ray Bradbury, you are an old man and have gone crazy and have eaten Supreme Pizza before bed and are actually dreaming right now.”

Jet packs and unitards are the only missing elements to the future we fantasized as children. For all our children know, this is the way it has always been, and if this is the way it has always been, “WHY CAN’T I HAVE A CELL PHONE I HATE YOU!”

What I have learned from this is the Future will mostly serve to give teenagers a broader scope of things to disrespectfully demand of their parents, and it will also make communication easier for grownups.