Looking back through past generations, I sometimes think how old fashioned they were. And, it’s kind of funny because I know that they probably felt they were so modern just as we do now. Times change so rapidly. What’s new becomes old and out of touch so quickly. What seemed so radical at the time, now looking back seems so
the really big invention in my lifetime so far was the internet. I remember my husband coming into my office at IBM with these diskettes that he said had the ‘internet on them’ – that old black spider crawler. How funny. . I thought he was crazy – and thought why do I need all this useless information…
things that have become outdated or radically changed in my lifetime so far: encyclopedias for information, dressing up for travel – flying – pan am, black and white tv and the different sizes of tv – remember those huge heavy clunky tv’s, phone service and long distance, segregation and busing, maps, computers, cameras, gps, INTERNET, cell phones