Watching a few minutes of basketball with the boy this evening, and he asked me to pause the TV so he could put something away. At age 4+, TV is something that you can pause anytime, and it always has been.
In the same department, both kids expect to be able to see any photograph immediately after it’s taken… and I’m not talking about waving a drying Polariod print, either.
I grew up with rotary phones, but I don’t feel terribly old until I hear these words out of the mouths of babes. I can almost feel the snow piling up in the stories I’ll have to tell about walking to school uphill, both ways! Actually, back in the day, the school bus worked quite well, or dad dropped us off on his way to work. So much for the myth…
More seriously, I hope I can remain fresh to new ideas as long as possible. And, now and again, I’d like to imagine a sliver of the future clearly enough to help build it.