we recently had Sage reach out to us about sponsoring a piece of content that
demonstrated the benefits of their security and home automation
ecosystem but as I was sitting on the couch tinkering with their Hub that
connects to your TV I realized something my son who just turned four wasn't
impressed At All by the idea that the doorbell ringing could trigger a
notification on my phone and a picture in picture view of whoever's standing
outside he took it completely for granted so I was inspired to create this
list of seven differences between when I was his age and
today first things first when I was the same age as my eldest son all of my toys
required me to do all the voices and the
actions myself this fraking thing would have
completely blown my mind it even knows his name I'm pretending to be a horse
and that's not the only thing that does all the work for you I mean burn stain
Bears visit the dentist is great and all but this this is progress believe the
Ewok think C3PO is magical number two video games were
Nostalgia filter aside objectively worse
and I was one of the lucky ones I had a Game Gear I mean that thing had a color
screen back in 1990 just too bad it only
stayed on for about 3 hours every time you put six ablea batteries in it a
practice that would probably make the mobile games with autosave generation
say very cringe much old man technology
if they even say that anymore number three movie content may have been
similar or better I'll put home word bound up against Jango Unchained or
whatever any day but finding physical media realizing it's not
rewind my kids won't even know that those were Innovations to put it in
context I graduated high school when YouTube was invented and my kids will
take for granted that watching any video they want is as simple as clicking an
icon not to mention the constant interruptions if the doorbell rang
during my Saturday morning cartoons I had to get off my butt and go see who it
was which
okay so nothing quite like that ever happened you can tell cuz I'm standing
here today but this is one of the coolest things about the sage home
automation system you've got a picture and picture view of the scary guy so
you've at least got a few second Head Start to go hide under your blanket
number four well I'm pretty sure that every generation thinks homework is a
total drag trust me kids it was worse
when I was a kid I mean that was even before in Carta encyclopedia on CD ROM
when we had to actually sign out actual books from an actual Library most of
which were horrifyingly out of date because yay school funding and don't
even get me started on pens I mean between the backspace button and
Wikipedia which may not be perfect but it's a great starting point the new
generation's only excuse for being uninformed is pure
laziness which leads us pretty well into number five when I was already snuggled
up in bed in the winter and I wanted to turn off the lights I had to get off my
butt and turn off a light switch or if I was one of the cool kids I might have
had a Clapper just don't install those things too close to each other hey by
contrast there is an entire generation of people for whom not being able to
control lights with a phone or a smartwatch is going to be completely
Unthinkable number six communication was
a completely different animal thank you cards were written by hand I'm pretty
sure my son has grandma on Facebook and for voice communication you actually had
to remember your friend's number or look it up in the phone book everyone just
doesn't understand me you know and even then privacy was never a guarantee like
if if they would just listen then they would they would understand me better
you know just a sec hey is someone
listening this this is
awesome seven is one thing that may have actually seemed better at the time
coming home after school there was pretty much no way for my parents to
know if I was actually practicing with piano or not but from a parents
perspective being able to check in on the home and see if workbooks are
actually being completed is a pretty big Boon number eight music playback has
definitely improved CDs brought improved audio quality and easy track skipping
but even that improvement over cassette tape sucks compared to subscription
music services that cost the same as a handful of albums per year would have
especially when you factor in that most of the songs weren't even things that
you'd like with that said though you could make the argument that the quality
of the music itself hasn't changed
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