You remember your childhood? High School, the phone would ring? And you would rush to pick it up. Parents always fail to notice that someone picked up the phone already, I dont know if they’re slow or they just do this deliberately, to stay on and listen in on your conversations. My Dad would pick up the phone half a minute after it stops ringing. And you would yell, “Mom, I got it already, put the phone down.” We thought perhaps one day we will understand, why our parents would read our personal letters, but then we won’t. Technology changes so fast that the “lan line” generation is long behind us, kids today, they have cell phones, they have instant messengers, in fact they dont even have to leave their room to talk to their friends. Do they realize how lucky they are, or are they? Perhaps kids today would worry about parents hacking their computers installing spyware to sniff out what they type on their IM. Remember 20 years ago, 1 person can program a computer game and sell it in a zip-lock bag in grocery store, 10 years ago we are dialing up and using BBS to download pictures. 5 years ago we are ICQ-ing at home but nowadays we dont even call it that anymore, who remembers search engines like webcrawlers and infoseek. Now we google for something and we get it. In fact programmers dont have to solve problems others have already solved, we’re moving towards a “hive mind” collective consciousness. We no longer read maps because we can mapquest or GPS locations. In fact 5 years later we probably call that googling too. 10 years later I dont think anyone would understand what a VCR and a tape is, and kids don’t have to get online when they get home, in fact we will be living inside a huge WiFi network, and with palm device to talk to each other wherever we are. Perhaps 15 years later, kids won’t know what a cell phone is. We look back, and reminiscense about the old days, will we ever understand our parents? Let’s just first start with understanding ourselves.