One of the most frightening things you can think about is just how much of your younger years will be completely unfathomable to future generations.
Forget big inventions like space and time travel (it’s close) but consider simple things, like being where you said you were going to be. Once being late meant having to call the bar and begging the hostess to tell your date – who is convinced you are standing them up – you were on your way. Nowadays you can text your Tinder dates to weasel your way out of tardiness, no problem!
And speaking of dating, remember the days when you had to fight your whole family to hog the home phone and call your sweetheart. That act of selfishness would stop everyone in one house from being able to use the family Macintosh to access the three websites on the World Wide Web.
Well while technology has swept in and made things a lot simpler you might have to prepare yourself for some very frustrating conversations about things like what a floppy disc was, why your mum gave you a slap on the head for touching film negatives or how you could go through a whole day without ever seeing one of these #.
Children of the future, you know nothing.
“Mum, what is this?” A floppy disc which once hosted so many answers will only drum up questions.
Kids will never know that this “#” was once just a pound sign, not a hashtag.
Kids these days will never understand the annoying crunching of someone texting on their Nokia 3310 – with a Playboy bunny cover?
Or will they believe that flip phones were the absolute coolest?
Windows don’t wind up the way they once did.
They won’t know the blue screen you saw for the 16 hours it took to turn a computer on.
They wouldn’t be able to pen a formal letter.
They won’t know those warm fuzzy feelings of when you got handed a mixtape from your crush.
Old school: Kids won’t know how to look for a book in the library.
The won’t know the black ink all over your fingers after reading the newspaper.
They will never know how to properly write a cheque.
And they won’t know the days when famous people weren’t just famous for being famous.
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