Feb 13 2009
How Much Longer Will It Keep on Ticking?
I’m behind the times! I asked on Twitter and Facebook this week if wearing a watch is going out of style. I still wear a watch—and not for fashion’s sake. Apparently, I’m the last one to know that I’m supposed to carry my cell phone around to know what time it is.
When I’ve asked the teenagers in my religion class several times for someone with the correct time, no one could say. (They aren’t supposed to bring out their cell phones.) This tells me the next generation never even adopted the habit.
I consider my grandparent’s lives and the changes in technology they’ve lived through, and I wonder if they always felt they were straddling two different eras. I’m not necessarily nostalgic for the one that’s going away, just wondering if I will be left on the other side.
That’s highly likely.
I called Paul at the end of the workday to remind him of our daughter’s school concert that night. He said, “My phone just beeped at me to tell me that.”
What about you? What switch-overs have you made as we move into an even newer digital age? What have you clung to?
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