From slate to iPad Years ago I took for think of the huge gap between my parents' generation and mine, when analyzing the overall differences in the way of life: education, housing, work, leisure, etc. and without going into technical details. As it happens, not very particular that my parents are from a rural environment, so the differences he perceived between his childhood and youth it seemed to me enormous, and provided for my children, when they did, would have a much longer life like mine.
The house of my paternal grandparents, in its infancy, had dirt floors, barn, had no bathroom and the patio was a small barn that housed the transportation of my grandfather: a donkey. The case of my grandparents is quite different, so I obviaré because I illustrates the quantum leap of generations.
My father saw the arrival of electricity, went to school with a slate (a contraption made of real slate
, would say the Vip's, with a capacity of about 20 bytes pulling from the top). Of course there were just toys, few streets were paved, if not any, and all the people had two or three cars, one of my maternal grandfather.
So I imagined that my children would play with toys similar to mine, that would go to school and have classes organized by age, that cars in the streets would be like me, who would see pictures on TV y. .. wait, not so fast.
My generation has seen the advent of home computers, the birth of the Internet, you could almost equate to the arrival of electricity at the time. I remember a friend told how I lived through the advent of electricity at home with their parents "the light was very dim, and it was like a miracle." Something I have to explain in a few years, while trying to connect with my 56k modem, making a phone call, the miracle of real-time chat with someone from Australia and hallucinatory email. (I was a little obsessed with having an email account as soon as he saw that Compuserve addresses were a mixture of numbers and letters that would eventually have 23947sw@compuserve.com).
Actually, and removing the technology, little has changed between my generation and the next. We could add a few touches of notions of security and hygiene, why confine children to play in controlled spaces and under adult supervision, that what they see on TV are also toys (the toy Mazinger Z is could be sold, Holy God) and little else.
Those of my generation, and has written much about it, we lived not only the arrival of the Internet, mobile, pasteurized milk, the bollicao, breakfast cereals, the super-glue, hypermarkets, living on the outskirts of cities, immigration, highways ... ie, that at some point in our lives, all that did not exist. The first Ecuadorian I knew was, and is an electronics engineer.
What about technology? Is not that enough change? Yes it is. The pasteurized milk seems silly, but I've gone to buy milk at a dairy, and have given me so straight from the cow had to be boiled. And when selling at the supermarket, you had to go soon because if not exhausted, because of course, was milk a day. I've also seen it with my own eyes, very young, yes, how some women in the village of my parents in the public laundry washing, it seems to me something almost nineteenth century.
may or may not, that technology will change everything. Since then, my son 6 years ago as I was doing homework, (your professor has spent 20 years in the subject and I think it has made few innovations of Me). Of course, adorned with images related duties that sack of Google Images. Is the child who makes the copy & paste
... good, also the plug the router, turn on the PC, open Chrome, type the search terms and select "Pictures." Nonsense, of course, but I will owe 100% hand made, and it was late when I introduced the typewriter.
Actually this post was more an open question does technology has changed everything and so much?
