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What's the biggest difference between the technology of today and the things we thought were new, way back when.
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9 comments:

Jeanne said...

Probably the biggest difference in technology from my childhood is how quickly everything happens.

May 2, 2009 at 10:58 AM
H. Washington-Williams said...

Technology changes very quickly today. What is new today is old tomorrow.

May 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM
bookiegirl said...

everything was audio or visual, now everything is written, but not in "English", IM ing

rotary phones
b&w TV
TV saving methods
analog clocks
phone booth
roller skates w/key
memorizing all phone #'s
no ATM
windup alarm clocks
no video cameras at stores or street lights to catch crooks
using books & the library for all research
having a paper library card

May 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM
bprov said...

I think getting my first computer was like seeing a TV for the first time.

May 2, 2009 at 11:06 AM
MICHAEL Z MURPHY said...

The biggest difference is not in the technology itself, but in me. Childhood experience forms a template. My template is about books and card catalogues and alphabetical order and having actually to memorize things. The new technology is about iconology (not good for those of us who aren't visual). It's about manipulating symbols of things rather than the actual things. It's about more carefully revised and edited materials. It's about bells and whistles that often add little or nothing, for example the envelope with wings that flapped across the screen the first time someone tried to explain e-mail to me. I fear turning into the third grade student who will spend hours cutting and gluing glitter to make the cover for his book report on which he spent only 5 minute writing. That cover page, no matter how lovely or lovingly made, adds nothing to the content of the book report itself and may prove to be quite a distraction from matters of substance.

May 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM
alan n. said...

I think the biggest change I've felt has been the arrival of the cell phone. Even though I've lived without one for most of my life, I still cannot picture a world without them.

May 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM
thecrayonqueen said...

Things are quicker, more acessable and there is much more of it. Info is easier to find. Sometimes there is to much. I know it is suppose to make life easier but it doesn't always work that way.

May 2, 2009 at 11:17 AM
lauratunis said...

Tecnology was not used when I was in HS or college. The "new thing" was word processors. I failed typing in HS and still "hunt & peck". I had to pay people or barter art to get papers typed in college (on the type-writer in the late 1970's)... I was going to quit my job when the computers came in; they still tease me about this in my office! I gave my work issued PDA back a year ago because it just seemed too foreign and difficult to use. I continue to explore & be amazed by my laptop functions. I know it is important to be computer sauvy to keep up with the times and the kids! I am overwhelmed but excited by the possibilities... as soon a you get too "comfy" everthing changes!

May 2, 2009 at 11:19 AM
bookiegirl said...

I forgot to add air conditioning & microwaves!

May 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM

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