iPhone post: thoughts on progressive technology

hello dear readers, today i come to you from a local starbucks and i was thinking about technology. You know, when i think about it and look at students in my school and elsewhere i feel like the progression of technology or at least personal technology is in some peril in the near future case in point. My cousin Sasha is 11 years old, he has grown up and lived in a world where the personal computer was always in existance, he also grew up in a world where the internet was always around, now perhaps of this he is jaded by the consequences of this knowledge, i know that when i was 5 my father bought the first computer for his office behind his studio, a IBM 286, it ran DOS and not much else except for a couple simple tabulation programs and word processing systems. by still contract by the time Sasha was 5 he had his first HP desktop with 800mhz processor and a speedy connection to the internet.

what i am getting to here is this: when I asked sasha what stored a computers data his response was "the DVD player." Our children today, the ones who grew up in and around 1996-2000 are growing up without a knowledge of a system they use every day. and what happens one day when the caretakers of that system (us and our parents) can no longer provide the care we give now...

p.s- you should know Sasha is a certified genius and currently is taking courses for gifted children at SUNY Marymount
if you do not believe me about the above theory, I challange you to the following:

find a kid eleven to 14 years old, and ask them about anything having to do with computers that might be mildly technical that you know the answer to, if they cannot answer you teach them about it, the only way we can fix a problem is to deal with it on a case by case basis. computer education is key, not just learning office and such, but actually aclimating the youth of today to understand how technology works, and its importance not only to the personal lives of many, but to the overal stability of our nation, and world.

thus is the musings of the TECHbet

cheers!