What we tell our kids and grandkids?

[brjedi]

I'm sure that everyone reading this has either had their parents tell them, or have told their kids, what technology was like back when they were a kid.

It usually begins with "Back when I was a kid..." and then may proceed in one of the following ways, or something else.

• We had to GET UP FROM THE COUCH to change the channel on the TV!
• We had to RENT a VCR, player and all, to watch a movie!
• We about went DEAF whenever we were trying to use the internet! [  Dial Up Internet Sound ]
• etc...

However, there is one question. What will we tell our grandkids and great grandkids? Will it be that at one point we had to CONTROL OUR CAR!? Will it be that we once had to WAIT for things to download, or that we had to go to a STORE and BUY a game? [This one is even currently becoming less of a reality] Will it be that at one point we had to look at a computer screen, it wasn't built into our eye?

 

Anyways, I challenge you to come up with what you think you will tell your grandkids or great grandkids in ~30 years. List what it was like in 2017, and how much better it is in 2047. 

 

Enjoy!

[Eaglerino]

My first phone didn't have a touch screen

I had to learn how to drive my car

[PlayStation 2]

people cared about what brand our piece of rock, metal and silicon were

[dizmo]

Back when I was a kid, we had to work to earn something called "money", which you exchanged for goods and services.

Though really I'll never have grandchildren. It might be my sisters grandchildren

 

I'll also pull the "I had to walk to school, 4km, up hill both ways. Which I can say. Because it's true.

[luigi90210]

i remember when you had to install windows from a floppy disk and when my schools internet didnt block every website in existence( used to browse /b/ all the time back in middle school)

[Arika]

My first broadband was 256k. 

[mech]

My first cpu was only 1 core!

[Cyracus]

we spent years learning all the things we needed for basic life, rather than just plugging in and loading knowledge into our brains

[Drak3]

The world didn't used to be such a shit hole.

[aisle9]

If you ever feel like prefacing your actions with, "Hey guys, watch this!", stop and carefully consider the wisdom of what you're about to do.

[vanished]

25 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'll also pull the "I had to walk to school, 4km, up hill both ways. Which I can say. Because it's true.

Don't forget "into the wind"... that was also true for me lol every single day, both directions... idek how

[Cyracus]

33 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'll also pull the "I had to walk to school, 4km, up hill both ways. Which I can say. Because it's true.

 

8 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Don't forget "into the wind"... that was also true for me lol every single day, both directions... idek how

in the snow

[PETRGangKing]

24 minutes ago, ScrappyZeDog said:

My first cpu was only 4 cores

Really lol? My first was a single core Pentium.

[Cyracus]

6 minutes ago, PETRGangKing said:

Really lol? My first was a single core Pentium.

kids these days 

[dizmo]

11 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

 

in the snow

Hey, during the winter, hell yes. It's Canada. Unfortunately I had to cross a small bridge that, when plowed, would have banks that crested the safety rail. It was a little sketchy walking on it, and during the real bad snows, we'd have to walk in the lane oncoming lane of traffic... 

21 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Don't forget "into the wind"... that was also true for me lol every single day, both directions... idek how

Ugh don't remind me. Especially during the rainy season. The town I grew up in, in English,  means "Mother of the wind" so we saw some wicked wind, and it was windy almost all the time. 

[Cyracus]

Just now, dizmo said:

Ugh don't remind me. Especially during the rainy season. The town I grew up in, in English,  means "Mother of the wind" so we saw some wicked wind, and it was windy almost all the time. 

rain coming from every direction... even from below, right?

[Donut417]

I remember a time before the internet. LOL. 

[RollTime]

41 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

The world didn't used to be such a shit hole.

Are you sure

[Drak3]

Just now, RollTime said:

Are you sure

Yes.

[PETRGangKing]

13 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

kids these days 

Right. I still remember the craze of dual core. "It's two processors in one!!" Or how revolutionary hyper threading was when it came out, and seeing the first desktop computers that used it. I believe Dell was the first to offer a computer with a hyperthreading chip in it. I remember seeing it on QVC.

[Cyracus]

2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Yes.

take off the rose tinted glasses

[Drak3]

Just now, Cyracus said:

take off the rose tinted glasses

Don't get me wrong, the world is, and always has been a shit hole. But we're going downhill fast.

[PETRGangKing]

50 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

The world didn't used to be such a shit hole.

The world is, in most areas, is a better place than it's ever been. There's less poverty in the world than there has ever been, there's less disease can there has ever been, there is less hunger than there has ever been and in most places all the information in the world is at our fingertips. The only thing that has really declined on a global scale is the environment.

[Drak3]

Just now, PETRGangKing said:

The only thing that has really declined on a global scale is the environment.

Huh.

[Cyracus]

2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Don't get me wrong, the world is, and always has been a shit hole. But we're going downhill fast.

in the US, yeah we're on a shit slide into a shit hole filled with shit sharks, most of the rest of the world is actually getting better at quite a good rate. As much as I hate to admit it Trump did at least one good thing, every single country except the US committed to the paris agreement this year, even that crazy little rocket man