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LJ Idol Season 7 Week 6 Not of Your World
Dec. 8th, 2010 10:25 pmDear Caroline,
This past Sunday you just turned 8 years old. I am amazed every day that I have such a daughter as you. I love watching you play with your toys, draw, read, do your homework, and so many other things.
I got to thinking the other day things that came into being after you came into being. Things just “Are” and always have been that to me still seem shiny and new and probably always will.
Take Movies for example. There were 3-D films in my day, heck before my day in your grandparent’s day. But the technology was cumbersome and only really worked for about a 1/3 to ½ the audience. The first 3-D film I saw with the new version of the technology was at Disney Hollywood (Which will always be Disney MGM to me) with the Muppets in 3-D which I love to this day, a fact you well know. You don’t remember a time before the choice of “do we see it in 3-D or 2-D?”
Or Lasers. You know that Pop-pop works with lasers. What you may not know is that he was there at the start of lasers. He remembers the big tables that they use for the large lasers that would fill a room. You tear off hologram stickers from toys and toss them like they are nothing but Pop-pop worked a lot with holography. You have seen and play with the holograms at their house including one of the first white light holograms ever. The laser pointer that you use to play with the cats did not exist when I was your age. I am amazed that I can buy for under 10 dollars something that use to cost in the thousands and 10s of thousands.
Or the iProducts in the house. You get bored somewhere and ask me for the iPad or if you want to play certain games you ask for the iPhone. Those items just are. Believe it or not, they came into being after you. In fact you were in Kindergarten when they came out. And it was a big deal. Bigger than a lot of people thought. The iPhone has changed the way we look at a phone and the computer. Sure we call it an iPhone but it is really a small computer in the palm of our hands. When I was a child, computers were huge machines that were housed in special buildings. I have watched the computer shrink from a large building to the palm of my hand. Then there is the idea of the touch screen which is really out of control now if you ask me. You are use to touching screen and having them react to your touch or the touch of the stylus. I am amazed that I can drag things with my finger around the screen. You draw on my iPad a lot and for you it seem perfectly normal, to me I am in awe as I watch you navigate your way through a picture that you are creating with your fingers.
Or Music. You asked me the other day what was in a cabinet under the TV. I told you a record player and you looked at me blankly. I showed you the turntable and explained how we use to listen to our music. I told you about audio tape and walkmans (which they aren’t making anymore). You know what a CD is but don’t understand why I just don’t download it from iTunes. I think how far we have come in terms of audio in such a short time and it is pretty amazing.
Your world is so different than mine. I tell you these things are you think I had a dinosaur for a pet. What world are your children going to grow up in? How ancient will our technology be to them? Will you tell them stories of the technology you grew up with? Will my time be not of their world?
Love,
Your Mommy
This past Sunday you just turned 8 years old. I am amazed every day that I have such a daughter as you. I love watching you play with your toys, draw, read, do your homework, and so many other things.
I got to thinking the other day things that came into being after you came into being. Things just “Are” and always have been that to me still seem shiny and new and probably always will.
Take Movies for example. There were 3-D films in my day, heck before my day in your grandparent’s day. But the technology was cumbersome and only really worked for about a 1/3 to ½ the audience. The first 3-D film I saw with the new version of the technology was at Disney Hollywood (Which will always be Disney MGM to me) with the Muppets in 3-D which I love to this day, a fact you well know. You don’t remember a time before the choice of “do we see it in 3-D or 2-D?”
Or Lasers. You know that Pop-pop works with lasers. What you may not know is that he was there at the start of lasers. He remembers the big tables that they use for the large lasers that would fill a room. You tear off hologram stickers from toys and toss them like they are nothing but Pop-pop worked a lot with holography. You have seen and play with the holograms at their house including one of the first white light holograms ever. The laser pointer that you use to play with the cats did not exist when I was your age. I am amazed that I can buy for under 10 dollars something that use to cost in the thousands and 10s of thousands.
Or the iProducts in the house. You get bored somewhere and ask me for the iPad or if you want to play certain games you ask for the iPhone. Those items just are. Believe it or not, they came into being after you. In fact you were in Kindergarten when they came out. And it was a big deal. Bigger than a lot of people thought. The iPhone has changed the way we look at a phone and the computer. Sure we call it an iPhone but it is really a small computer in the palm of our hands. When I was a child, computers were huge machines that were housed in special buildings. I have watched the computer shrink from a large building to the palm of my hand. Then there is the idea of the touch screen which is really out of control now if you ask me. You are use to touching screen and having them react to your touch or the touch of the stylus. I am amazed that I can drag things with my finger around the screen. You draw on my iPad a lot and for you it seem perfectly normal, to me I am in awe as I watch you navigate your way through a picture that you are creating with your fingers.
Or Music. You asked me the other day what was in a cabinet under the TV. I told you a record player and you looked at me blankly. I showed you the turntable and explained how we use to listen to our music. I told you about audio tape and walkmans (which they aren’t making anymore). You know what a CD is but don’t understand why I just don’t download it from iTunes. I think how far we have come in terms of audio in such a short time and it is pretty amazing.
Your world is so different than mine. I tell you these things are you think I had a dinosaur for a pet. What world are your children going to grow up in? How ancient will our technology be to them? Will you tell them stories of the technology you grew up with? Will my time be not of their world?
Love,
Your Mommy
