The other day I got to thinking about that, “we didn’t have it in the old days” speech. We’ve all heard it from a parent or older relative at one time or another. I’ll admit I’ve even said it once or twice (with a little bit of irony though). Then I started wondering what will our children say to their children. I think it might go something like this:
Child: Can I download a video game off of Skynet into the chip implanted in my head now.
Parent: Have you uploaded your homework yet?
C: Yes.
P: Did you program your robot to clean up your room?
C: He did it a half-hour ago.
P: You know when I was your age our video games came on CD’s. And we didn’t play them inside our minds, we had to watch them on t.v. and use a hand held controller.
C: You had t.v.’s? Those are like antiques now. And what’s a CD?
P: We didn’t go to the Virtual Mall either. We had to log on to our computers and order stuff from websites. Then we had to wait 4-6 weeks for it to be delivered.
C: Geez; I’ve never had to wait for more than 10 minutes before something I ordered from the V-Mall got made in the replicator. Can I download some new songs now? I’ve been listening to the same ones inside my head for, like, two days now.
P: Did you give the verbal commands to dish washer yet? Y’know when I was a kid we had to load it by hand and then press a button.
C: Well we could just replicate new plates everyday like everyone else in the world. Zeus-dammit, you’re old.
P: And when I was a kid, we took God’s name in vain. Miss Manners-bot, wash this child’s mouth out with soap; and do it for real, not just virtually. I’m going to replicate a Blue Beaver Beer.
C: Wahhhh!
Very creative. Can you imagine what the generation next to that one will say?
I imagine by that time they will have evolved beyond the need for spoken word. Either that or they’ll all be plugged in to the matrix.
I think you have been watch too much Star Trek and Futurama. hehehe! It’s a pretty funny post!
When I was a kid, we used anti-bacterial soap. Kidding, of course.
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Well that is really great conversation between father and a kid and this is what i can say a future talk, well kids are getting more smarter now then before so this kind of conversation can be done…….
Future of the kids can be seen by this, as this conversation is letting me know about kids who are so questionable and also answerable so that they can beat you in talks, well, yes this is something we can call future talk.