Our daughter will probably never know a world in which you go to the store and buy a physical product to listen to music. She won't experience records, 8-tracks, cassette tapes, or CD's. She will go to iTunes, or whatever online music store is in the future and download music to her music device of the future.
Our daughter will grow up the first eight years of her life with a black president, and will be taught from birth that we are all equal regardless of skin color.
She will grow up with access to the internet from the day she is born. Not only will she have access, but she will never know a time when we used to access the internet through the phone lines (56K modem below).
Come to think of it, she may have no concept of a land-line phone, and will be familiar with cell phones from birth.
Every picture she takes she will have instant access to see, and will have no concept of 35mm film, and waiting a week for a role of film to be developed.
As of yesterday when we received our free digital TV converter box thing, our daughter will never see analog TV the way it has been broadcast for the last 50+ years. By the way, digital TV is amazing, the picture quality is pretty sweet, and I love the channel menu. Unfortunately, for all its nice quality, there is still nothing on TV worth watching (except Lost and The Office of course).
Lastly, since I no longer use a CRT computer monitor (a non-flat screen monitor for the less techo-savvy) Sophia will never have this bulky, glaring device on her desk while she uses the internet of the future, and hopefully will have better eyesight than her father.
Feel free to comment on any major things I'm missing! Sophia will certainly be growing up in a different world.
4 comments:
The saddest thing is that Sophia will grow up without Mr. Rogers Neighborhood since PBS took his program off the air.
No Mr. McFeely's Speedy Delivery...no Make Believe and Trolley...no Picture,Picture...and most of all no watching Mr. Rogers change into his sweater and gym shoes at the beginning of each show.
aaaahhhh....it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
Grammy
Linda, we still have Mr. Rogers on our PBS! So there is still hope :)
Since Sophia will spend the first few years of her life in Pittsburgh, Mr. Rogers's real neighborhood, she might have a chance at meeting this old friend. And if she doesn't, I'll show her his house--it's a mile from mine.
She's also been introduced to the world before she was born! I don't remember my parents having a blog! :)
Oohhh--- it IS a beautiful day... you just made mine---thanks Jess and wren!
Do you think they will put 40 years of the series on dvd?? hmmm...
I had forgotten that Pittsburgh was Mr. Roger's home. That is a so comforting:)
Thanks, Ben for hosting this "community" chat:) will this go into your thesis?
Love, Mom
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