{"id":17170,"date":"2013-04-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=17170"},"modified":"2013-04-01T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T19:55:00","slug":"what-tech-will-your-grandkids-not-recognize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/culture\/what-tech-will-your-grandkids-not-recognize\/","title":{"rendered":"What Tech Will Your Grandkids Not Recognize?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in November, Techcitement talked about how much technology has changed<\/a> and how much the 10 and under set have acclimated to this new tech as the baseline norm. Pop culture has plenty of references to tech that existed for kids in the 80s and 90s, leading parents to have to explain things to confused children.<\/p>\n

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“Games had 8 bits and were played on these things called cartridges. Sometimes they wouldn’t work and you had to blow on them, which actually did nothing to help.”<\/p><\/div>\n

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The thing is, this isn’t a new concept. My own grandmother was a telephone operator back in the days when you called an operator to connect your call. The idea that her grandchildren had no idea that dialing direct was “high tech” amused the heck out of her. Yet our TV shows were full of references to old school operators. One has to wonder, what currently cutting edge tech will be\u00a0pass\u00e9 in the next few decades?<\/p>\n

Computers without Touchscreens<\/h3>\n

I’ve wanted touch screen computers ever since Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> first premiered, and we’re slowly getting them. As more and more people grow up with touchable smartphones and tablets, people begin to take touch controls for granted.\u00a0Everyone’s seen that insanely cute video of the little kid trying to gesture her way through a magazine, yes?<\/p>\n