Anecdotes

  I learned a lot of stuff from the conversation I had with my dad in comparison with the lecture we had on age and technology and how humans, in the perspective of Douglas Adams, predictably react to change. While listening I took note of how my dad lived in the past where technology wasn't what it was today, and what I learned that he has a lot of patience. Whether he was standing in line where gas was only given on certain days according to your license number or where he had to follow the schedule of "appointment television" to watch the shows he liked at the only time it aired. As a growing up individual he didn't shun technological innovations or "catastrophes" to some he embraced it and couldn't wait til the next type of music device or computer came out; however, during that time electronics like that were very expensive. During the end of the interview he told me he was jealous. Not jealous in a negative sense but jealous that none of these innovations came when he was a child and that we are a fortunate generation. He was jealous that he couldn't have faster internet, computers, hybrids, unlimited channels he can't watch them all, and for that I'm happy. Who knows? I might be jealous of what becomes invented after I'm thirty I never experienced as a kid, if I make it to thirty of course!