Windows '98

While returning home I saw some kids roller skating on the road. They would hardly have been 7 or 8 year old. I remembered my own days as a kid. To enjoy we would generally stick to games like cricket or playing tops or flying kites. But today its the age of roller skates or skate boards and virtual games.

These kids have been born with these gizmos in their hands. Mobile phone is a normal thing for them and is a hep thing for an 8 year old to have. Internet is something without which homeworks are out of question. Google is the present version of the good old Oxford dictionary. You aint kool if you dont have the biggest Bey Blade (most of us dont even know whats that) or if you dont watch, or play or have a set of Pokemon gizmos.

I know that I am too young to talk like this but think of the time when our kids will come to this world. Blue tooth enabled appliances will be the norm. Simulated strategy games which will be played in real time would have taken the place of roller skates. The latest version of windows which would run on your palm tops would be Windows don't know what. The latest Pentium offering would Pentium 10^10 a 100 ghz processor. The hottest selling toy would be BOOMLAKUA and I have no idea what that would be. But times would have changed drastically. Technology would have changed and we who think are using the latest technology proudly flashing our high tech gizmos in front of our friends would suddenly become outdated or in terms of an IT professional obsolete.

But the million dollar question is that will we be able to instill, the same values, the same culture, the same ethics that our parents have given to us? The sense of patriotism that I somehow feel is slowly diminishing in today's youth will that be wiped out by then? Will people start becoming obsolete like Technology?

Did you say no?

Think about this the number of divorce cases have been rising steadily. The number of extra marital affairs has been rising steadily.The plight of the knowledge worker is on the rise. The nuclear family system is on the rise.The time people spend with their families is decreasing. The time people give to their children is decreasing. The number of old people homes have been rising steadily.

Are we working towards our own doom?

Think about it or one day we might be obsolete like Windows 98...