Question by Tony: Do you think we are the last generation of kids?
who will be saying “when I was your age” to the younger kids? and do you think it is already begun?
I was born in 1983 so I’ll be 27 next month…what I’m trying to say is that the kids who grew up in the late 80’s and 90’s were the first to experience the digital revolution but at a very basic level.
As far back as I can remember there were always video games, Atari was around before I was born, my father works in IT so I remeber being one of the first kids on the block to have internet at a very young age, hell by the time I was in highschool kids were carrying around cellphones.
All this technology is so prevalent in our society now and actually controls the way we conduct our lives to a major degree, I cant see it slowing down anytime soon but at the same time I dont see it advancing in leaps and bounds the way it did during our lifetimes and especially during our childhoods.
I’ll use video games as a prime example of this, it went from atari to nintendo, to super nintendo, to playstation, to xbox, to nintendo 64, to xbox 3360 playstation 2 and Wii….every few years they would up the ante….but it seems as though they’ve hit a wall….its about that time again but no playstation 3 no xbox 720 no Wii advanced.
The same goes for the iPod, iPhone, and the iPad being the nweset…at first it was increasing expodentially, but it seems to have teetered off….same thing with smart phones…all the technology has seem to hit a wall.
We haven’t seen anything past Hi-Def dvds and blue ray discs and they have been out for some time and weren’t that major when they debuted in the first place…..I still have regular dvds, didn’t get further than the playstation 2, my cellphone is pretty basic.
What I’m asking is do you think we are the last generation of kids who can say when I was your age we had to blow into the video cartridge just to make Mario work and the best we had were voice messages, we couldn’t send texts.
It seemes like all the major shifts have already taken place….of course therewill be constant improvement but the subtlety of it all will make the “when I was your age” phenomenon disappear….think about it….when we were kids it was usually our crotchety old, (bless em’), grandparents who used to say when I was your age I had to walk ten miles to school in a blizzard uphill both ways…now I feel like I can say that in my mid 20s to my girlfriends younger siblings about what is the most dominant and influential force today, technology.
Everthing has sped up over the last 50 years, there have been a surge of advances in the last half that is unparalleled in all of human history….I feel now, we just live in a perpetual future where new things happen all the time and we’re used to it…its the norm.
I went off on kind of a tangent and I’m not sure if there is a distinct solitary question being asked, I just happened to have the day ff and after a few beers I wonder if anyone agrees or disagrees or finds this even remotely intersting.
When I was your age…………………
Good one Dracula…BC=PS get a life, god is dead…interesting other dude.
Best answer:
Answer by Vlad III the Impaler
when I was your age………………I was as old as you!
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