#7 Technology

I remember our family's first record player and the disappointment on my dad's face when our 45 rpm recording of Bing Crosby's White Christmas didn't sound like it did on the radio. I remember our first 13 inch black & white television set and the fact that we got 3 (count 'em 3) stations on our TV in New York--Uncle Miltie, Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, Ed Sulllivan! I remember party-line telephones too! How much things have changed!

I remember the first time I used the Internet, and e-mail. and it was at OPL in the 90's. Pine was a text-based system. I remember thinking that it was much easier to pick up the phone to call someone than to use Pine. It was much easier to search for information in books. How much things have changed!

I sometimes am frustrated and feel as if I am so far behind the new waves of technology that I won't ever be able to catch up with my grandkids. I think that the frustration comes simply because it takes time, and play, to become comfortable with a new technology.

My grandkids seem to have an intuition about technology because they don't really know a world without it as I do. I watch them play WI, and wonder how they know how to play the games. It's pretty bad that grandma is looking for the directions, and a 5 yr. old plays without needing them. So, Saturday night when I'm watching them, after they go to bed, I'm going to play WI to see if I can figure it out!