On the Social Impact of Technology

Son K was at the video game store on the weekend.  He had the idea to sell some of his old video games to clear the clutter and maybe make some money.  It turns out they just give a store credit and he ended up using it to get a new video game, but for a lot less money.  Well at least he used up the store credit.

He waited in line for a long time as there was only one employee working.  There was a mom in front of him buying a video game set for her 9 year old son.  She had a lot of questions.  K started talking to the guy behind him and ended up getting a new online gaming partner.  They remarked on how young the kids were, that are starting to play video games.  K told the guy that he was outside playing tennis at that age.  The guy remarked on how he saw toddlers playing on Ipads in the restaurants these days.  They both felt they should be relating and talking to the people around them instead of having themselves immersed in technology all the time.  K remembered a school trip he took to Europe in 2014.  He thought it was so nice there, that people seemed to talk to each other more, as there were less people on their phones all the time.

Well I thought these were interesting observations coming from twenty year olds.