Looking Back on Simpler Days
Technology is a wonderful thing: distance is not an issue when it comes to communication, entertainment becomes more involving and vivid, cars are becoming a lot sexier, cell phones are getting smaller and smaller and are now a lot easier to swallow (if you REALLY want to) and well, food is easier to heat up. What I’m saying is, do you still remember the time when 56k modems were king? Were you even alive when even HAVING a sound card was enough to make your other geek friends drool? Today’s generation is taking technology for granted and consequently, they’re becoming a lot more….. spoiled.
“EHHH I want that new cell phone where it can take videos, pictures, play music and movies and can even shoot lasers to take down alien space ships!!!!!”
“Yuck, your digicam only has 8 megapixels. How droll.”
“Look, his cellphone doesn’t play mp3’s! Pathetic.”
Man, I have to admit that just hearing kids today moan and throw a hissy-fit just because their gadgets are not “up to par” with society today makes me laugh. I KIND OF miss the times when the only way to make appointments and plans was to call people up using a LANDLINE (seriously, do you still know what this is?) and actually asking if that person is there or not.
“Ummm hello? Yeah, is XXXX there? No? Okay, I’ll call back later. Thanks.”
See? Much simpler. (I have to admit it was MUCH easier to hide from people then compared to today. :D) Okay, I must confess that I too am a tech freak (I just bought a PC the other day) but I dont whine everytime I don’t get that snazzy new cellphone out on the market. I really don’t see the point of buying a very expensive phone that does everything. Heck, I just need one that can make calls and send messages and have color. That’s it. It’s not like I’m going to marry the phone. Right? Spend 30k on an mp3 player? Why? Buy a cheaper one and save money.
Maybe age is getting the better of me. It could be early senility. Or maybe it could just be called “growing-up”. You should try it.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
True, true…DOS boot disk, games in diskettes, discmans / walkmans. Hehe.
Kids nowadays are really big spenders. They don’t know how hard it is to earn money and all they think about are the comments of their friends about their mobile phones, mp3 players, etc.
I just by a new mobile phone when the current one I’m using is about to die on me. Not really picky with features as well, I just need something that can send SMS and make calls…that’s all, the basic stuff.
Mobile computing? Nah! I’d rather do everything on an efficient desktop PC.
September 14th, 2007 at 11:12 am
Yup, kids nowadays ask a lot. My son is ordering me to purchase a Wii.
September 14th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Yeah I don’t see anything wrong with being a techie, just don’t whine, and acknowledge the excess haha (Lower than 8MP, rofl seriously we scale it down anyway, and nobody really cares about the detail in the long run.) :]
September 14th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
well, in any case, my point is that it just ticks me off that kids today are REALLY spoiled. not most of them, though.