Yesterday, while in art class, I had an epiphany. It was really random, and didn't really have much to do with anything, and yet, it was an epiphany, and now, I'm going to write about it.
Today, right at this moment, the exact moment that you, (yes you), are reading this post, a baby is being born somewhere that might not ever know what a stereo is. We are so used to being the technological age. We are "natives", so to speak, when it comes to all this computer stuff. We've had it since we were born. So, when we look back on the previous generations, we tend to look at them as fossils thinking:
"What?! You were alive when cell phones were the size of bricks???"
"You were alive when there were only cartoons on Saturday?!"
"You owned a walkman???"
(and for those of you who don't know, this is a picture of a walkman:)
I mean, years from now, when archeologist's are digging up the remains of our daily lives, are they going to look at our tv's and know what they are? Or are they going to think that they are some mystical box that we worshipped? I mean think about it. Even now, TV's are being outdated by the internet, but we have entertainment centers based around our boxes. We all own one. So why wouldn't a future anthropologist think we worship them?
We're going to be outdate soon. Just like all the new iPod's get outdated just a month after they come out. Isn't that strange?
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ReplyDeleteWell, that didn't work out as I expected. Darn technological age, unable to delete things.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, since the humor of my previous comment is now lost in cyberspace, I suppose I'll just say that I own a walkman. *gaspeth*
But I don't mind being a fossil.