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13.02.08 # 9:55 # Things That Suddenly Occurred To Me # 4 CommentsThe 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!
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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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