Thanks to modern technology, we can now be pretentious and uppity in creative new ways
Problem: You are the proud owner of several mac products and a frequent shopper at Whole Foods. You feel like you have reached the ceiling of your proverbial pretentiousness. What’s your next move?
Solution: Combine your love for overpriced technology and overpriced food into the trifecta of pretentiousness: WholeFoods Market + iPad 2 + FaceTime!
The real reason my brother FaceTimed me in Whole Foods: He brought his iPad with him specifically so he could show our dad how FaceTime worked. Suffice to say, dad was impressed; When he was my brother’s age, there was no video conferencing from the grocery store to a family member back at home to check and see if you had the right brand of pasta sauce.
Pretentiousness aside, if you actually think about it, it’s kind of amazing that someone can have a video conference call over Wi-Fi in the middle of a grocery store with someone else anywhere in the world. Our generation often finds it frustrating and baffling that our parents struggle to understand the same technology that comes so natural to us, but if we actually stop to think about it, that’s because this stuff didn’t exist for the greater part of our parents’ lives.
Even though there is only five years difference between my brother and I, he cannot remember a time before the internet, while I can. Yet, I can’t remember a time before television, but my parents can. Years down the road when I have kids that are in their teens and twenties, what will the technology gap look like then?
“Remember how I was telling you about that thing called the Internet? Well, back in the year 2011 when your mom was in her twenties, she wrote stuff on this thing called a blog …”
“Mommy, what’s this brick thing?” … “Sweetie, its called an iPhone. I got this one in the year of 2009. It was the top-of-the-line smartphone at the time, touchscreen too!” … “What’s a smartphone?”
Horrifying.
It’s kind of scary how technology moves so fast. Just imagine a decade ago kids were barely getting their first brick-like cellphones. Now, we’re at the point where we have handheld computers in sleek styles.
Wait wait, your Whole Foods has WiFi??
My mom is a non-iPhone user and she got a little jealous when she saw that my brothers and I were FaceTiming it up and she couldn’t (no front-facing camera). It’s pretty amazing how quick parents have adapted considering that they had none of this–my mom now gets frustrated if her phone’s Gmail app doesn’t work!
Also, idk if I said this when the new layout first rolled out, but I rather like it. :)
I haven’t even thought about what and how I’m going to explain to my kids and grandkids what these gadgets are.
WiFi in a grocery store? Pretty interesting.
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Haha, well… the other day I was visiting this old shopping mall with my parents and they asked me if I’d ever been there before. And my reply was “yes. that one time when I was a kid and dad dropped me off to go swimming but the swimhall was closed so I had to walk to this mall to get to the payphone and call him to get me earlier that we’d agreed…” :D Omg, I am SO OLD that there were no cellphones when I was under 10 years old.