[ image courtesy Nishant Choksi ]
Brilliant piece from this month’s Wired – 10 Best Things We’ll Say to Our Grandkids:
- Back in my day, we only needed 140 characters.
- There used to be so much snow up here, you could strap a board to your feet and slide all the way down.
- Televised contests gave cash prizes to whoever could store the most data in their head.
- Well, the screens were bigger, but they only showed the movies at certain times of day.
- We all had one, but nobody actually used it. Come to think of it, I bet my LinkedIn profile is still out there on the Web somewhere.
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- Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium.
- You used to keep files right on your computer, and you had to go back to that same computer to access them!
- Is that the new iPhone 27G? Got multitasking yet?
- I just can’t get used to this darn vat-grown steak. Texture ain’t right.
* Translation: “English used to be the dominant language. Crazy, huh?”
A fantastic list indeed.
11. No seriously! Back then everyone used Windows… I know, it seems almost impossible to imagine doesn’t it?