Things you'll have to explain to your kids.

floppy discs were always a strange play thing to me due to that little slidey slot

The fact that there was a time when kids didn't know how to use computers.

What tapes are.

The time before everything was touch screen. I remember when touch screens on phones were still sci-fi.

The time before gay marriage was legal.

A time in which this was unheard of. Being given three laptop computers?

Shoot, there used to be a time in which laptops were like status symbols or something. Now they're disposable little trinkets.

I remember not having a computer in my house, growing up. Now I have eight, six of which work.

"There was once a time when gas was as low as $3.00 a gallon!"

On that note, I distinctly remember gas getting up to $1.75 in high school and thinking that was the end of the world on my part-time sacker paycheck.

"Kids, there was once a time when you had to turn a crank to operate a radio."

"What's a radio? Well you see..."

Radios remain consistently popular. I can't see them disappearing any time soon. Or ever, barring some serious shit going down.

Unless driving cars becomes a less frequent mode of transportation, radios and radio stations are fairly likely to endure in some form or another.

It might go all digital at some point, however.

Well, I could see them replaced by large wireless arrays, and stations being subsumed by stuff like pandora.

Pandora?

The online radio site.

Yah, you plug in artist(s) that you like and it plays similar stuff for you. You can also upvote songs you like and it will tag that as a specific type of music you like. Although, I'm not sure if they ever got rid of that "three down votes, and we stop playing this artist" thing. Or if they started subsorting the artists work by feel.

Ah, like Yahoo! radio before it mysteriously disappeared...

it's a pretty great service for when you don't have the time to manage your playlist manually, and the automatic song selection is better than Grooveshark's or Spotify's since they had actual people sit down and tag each song with attributes.

I am sure that despite the advance of the digital age, satelite radio, and personal mp3 devices we will see an end to radio as we know it. It is a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to do then getting airtime from a satelite netowrk.

Conversations Leradny Would Rather Like Having With Her Children, If She Has Any

"I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, ‘Mother, what was war?'" — Eve Merriam (1916-1992)

Less seriously, I'm gonna love explaining to my kids what "school textbooks" and "chalkboards," were like to have, since I want to be a teacher...

I don't think that they would be asking their parents what war was, if it ceased to exist. The generation gap is maybe 30 years, and that's just not enough for the concept of war to pass out of the general consciousness because they might have orphaned cousins/friends and so on. Grandparents would be more logical.

This is assuming the child is simply too young to know the definition of war upon his/her first history lesson.

edited 22nd Jan '12 11:09:23 AM by Leradny

Hey, it's just a quote.

Humans without war? We'd die of boredom.

The creative stagnation would be unbearable. That and the lack of population control.

eh, war isn't that good at controlling population. if you look at human population over time, there's a barely perceivable dip during WWII during the graph's exponential curve.

Having to explain to my daughter that gas used to be 99 cents a gallon, but I was a kid at the time and didn't have to pay for it - I recall paying something like a buck and some change when I was using Mom's '84 Plymouth Voyager box-van, and the attendent pumped it for you.

VHS, Arcades, game controllers in general, the fact that a good majority of porn situations will never happen irl.

Game controllers? Consoles lead sales in the gaming world.