Like it or not we're evolving and the increasing technology is leading the way. Kids today are so far ahead of their adults in using today's tech stuff, and they have to be since they're the ones who are going to improve on it.
It is what it is and there is no sense fighting it. Look at the evolution of television and phones.......
Personally, I'm falling further and further behind the times in terms cell phones. I've got my first cell, a Motorola Razr, and when I was at my niece's house for Christmas day, they showed me their phones. Niece's husband has a Smart Phone and my other nephew has an Android.
The nephew literally conducts all of his business (he's an estimator for a huge construction company) via his phone!
A hand held phone device that can send/receive emails, text msgs., browse the internet, provide GPS directions, weather reports, news reports, flash news updates, scan grocery bar codes, provide music to your car.............etc, etc........HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
Just look where we have come in the past 10 years regarding cell phones and imagine what is in store for us during the next 20 years..........
Technology has its benefits as well as it's pitfalls but I tend to embrace it and look forward to what it has to offer us in the future.....
As much as I would love to upgrade to modern phone technology, I'm stuck in fear mode...........
“HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?”
haha, they are pretty amazing little devices! I play a game called “Ingress” on an Android smartphone. This game is quite remarkable. I could describe it as an “augmented reality, real-time, massively multi-player game that is played globally - the main goal is to control territory for your team”. I guarantee you that places you go to have been transformed into “Portals” within this game (public places; churches, bars, sculptures, etc.). To interact with a portal you must *physically” go to that location, it makes you walk/drive/get out and about :) Sometimes you’ll bump into an enemy agent! It’s a game you can play wherever you travel, earth over. It does a good job of making you feel that the smartphone is really a “scanner” into another world that you can’t usually see...you can even wave it around like flashlight to see the “secret world” LOL.
That said, for the game to work it requires;
* The Internet
* GPS
* Electronic Gyroscopes
* Highly powerful embedded computers
* High quality displays with touch
* Wireless Internet capability
* Powerful servers to handle game coordination
* etc...
When I think about playing a game that is using all that technology, it really makes you wonder what is possible.
My hubby and I finally plunged into the world of smartphones a month ago. We are still learning, but it is a powerful tool. We just learned how to stream YouTube videos from our phones to our TV. So much to learn, it’s fascinating. We had fear about the phone bill!