I have a new
cell phone. It is a flip phone and it
can access the internet, send and receive text messages, take and send pictures
– and I don’t know how to do any of that.
Basically, I don’t have a need for any of that. I keep the phone for emergencies if I am
traveling, and I will probably use it less than fifteen minutes this year to
contact my wife if I have a question while I go shopping at the grocery store
by myself.
I don’t feel
the need to stay connected every minute - 24/7. But that doesn’t mean the world shouldn’t.
Though I am
not connected, I am not decrying the rest of the universe that obviously
is. I am a dinosaur and have chosen to
let technology leave me behind.
The children
of the millennials are growing up plugged in to iPads and computers instead of
watching Sesame Street; technology is replacing toys. This
will cause a rewiring of the brain producing a techno-generation that will
accept rapid change and think and respond differently than their
grandparents. These children are the
new aliens on planet Earth.
What used to
take decades to research, produce and market is now done in months. New products, new ideas, new parameters are
being introduced daily.
In 1985
there was no internet being used by the masses. An Apple Mac computer could store one megabyte
of data.
In the last
forty years there has been more change in human innovation than the
forty-thousand years preceding. We have satellites giving us GPS with
accurate to within a foot; space telescopes exploring the distance galaxies of
the universe; computers capable of massive compilations within seconds; and
exploration of the genome systems that in the very near future will cure most diseases
and allow humans to drastically extend their life span. Not to mention creating a new generation of
children adapted to dealing with technologies and this rapid change.
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