This past weekend, something interesting happened. My son learned what a watch is. He turned three years old this week and he had previously known what a clock was and what it did. Of course, he cannot tell time but he understands the concept of what a clock does.
Well, this week my in-laws are in town and my son's grandfather was wearing a watch. My wife and I do not wear a watch as our cellphones have long since replaced a watch or the need to wear one. For almost all of my son's life he has not seen a watch on our wrist. Then when he saw it, he naturally said "you got a clock on your hand"
That's when it hit home. We are fast approaching a time in our history when wearable timepieces will be obsolete. Of course, when the long awaited and highly coveted “Dick Tracy Two-way Wrist Radio/TV” unit is finally made available things will certainly change but for now, they will never experience having to look at their wrist to tell the time. I sit here and wonder what else they will never experience, who knows maybe they will never experience owning an automobile.
I was reading something in today's (02/29) Wall Street Journal that mentioned in Japan, youth are leaning more towards not purchasing a car because they don't see the benefit of doing so. As they are more and more tied into the Internet, the need for a vehicle diminishes. They can order just about anything they want/need on the Internet and have it delivered. That along with their already cramped quarters pretty much anything they could ever want is within walking distance, so the need to own a car is quickly vanishing. What else is quickly vanishing from our kid's lives and being replaced with or substituted for?
Interesting times ahead for them and us.
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Dave Guerra, Wall Street Journal, Seiko watch, clock, Dick Tracy
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