Things Your Kids May Never Know

Charleston, S.C.

According to WIRED Magazine these are Things Your Kids May Never Know:

Gadgets

• Typewriters.


• Putting film in your camera: 35mm may have some life still, but what about APS or disk?


• Sending that film away to be processed.


• Having physical prints of photographs come back to you.


• CB radios.


• Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away.


• Rotary-dial telephones.


• Answering machines.


• Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart


• Pay phones.


• Phones with actual bells in them.


• Fax machines.


• Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

We are talking about YOUR kids, not mine. I am happily old.

Last year I had a busload of teenagers being mentored in the hospital for Groundhog Job Shadow day. The students were assigned to surgery, the nursery, physical therapy etc., but of all the excited tales told at lunch the girl who saw her first typewriter in the Administrative Office was the most thrilled. She'd seen them on tv but never in real life.