Multimedia and the New York Times

I spend a lot of time these days reading the New York Times. I have it as an app on my iPhone and since I spend countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms or waiting for my leg to be iced at PT, I read almost every article in the NYT that is on my iPhone.

I've simultaneously been thinking a lot about how my children and children of my peers will remember their parents in this technological generation. They will grow up with the idea of a blog, facebook, cell phones, gps, text messaging and more. I can't imagine my parents ever doing any of these things growing up. My mom talked on the phone sometimes, but not excessively. We were one of the first families to have a computer and early internet (prodigy!) but it wasn't like it is now.

Noah has his own apps on my iphone for letters, spelling, and puzzles. He doesn't use them often, but they are there. Paul rigged up an old computer for him and he can type and use a mouse.

I just wonder what his memory will be of us and how he will perceive our usage of these new phenomena. I have answer to my ramblings, just curiosity for the future.

So, in the article I read today, it talks about how kids Noah's age will far surpass kids who are only three or four years ahead of him.

Read it and consider!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/weekinreview/10stone.html?em