My kids are so lucky! - Technology Now vs Then
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,027 words · ~5 min read
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we recently had Sage reach out to us about sponsoring a piece of content that
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demonstrated the benefits of their security and home automation
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ecosystem but as I was sitting on the couch tinkering with their Hub that
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connects to your TV I realized something my son who just turned four wasn't
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impressed At All by the idea that the doorbell ringing could trigger a
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notification on my phone and a picture in picture view of whoever's standing
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outside he took it completely for granted so I was inspired to create this
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list of seven differences between when I was his age and
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today first things first when I was the same age as my eldest son all of my toys
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required me to do all the voices and the
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actions myself this fraking thing would have
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completely blown my mind it even knows his name I'm pretending to be a horse
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and that's not the only thing that does all the work for you I mean burn stain
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Bears visit the dentist is great and all but this this is progress believe the
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Ewok think C3PO is magical number two video games were
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Nostalgia filter aside objectively worse
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and I was one of the lucky ones I had a Game Gear I mean that thing had a color
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screen back in 1990 just too bad it only
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stayed on for about 3 hours every time you put six ablea batteries in it a
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practice that would probably make the mobile games with autosave generation
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say very cringe much old man technology
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if they even say that anymore number three movie content may have been
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similar or better I'll put home word bound up against Jango Unchained or
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whatever any day but finding physical media realizing it's not
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rewind my kids won't even know that those were Innovations to put it in
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context I graduated high school when YouTube was invented and my kids will
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take for granted that watching any video they want is as simple as clicking an
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icon not to mention the constant interruptions if the doorbell rang
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during my Saturday morning cartoons I had to get off my butt and go see who it
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was which
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okay so nothing quite like that ever happened you can tell cuz I'm standing
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here today but this is one of the coolest things about the sage home
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automation system you've got a picture and picture view of the scary guy so
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you've at least got a few second Head Start to go hide under your blanket
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number four well I'm pretty sure that every generation thinks homework is a
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total drag trust me kids it was worse
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when I was a kid I mean that was even before in Carta encyclopedia on CD ROM
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when we had to actually sign out actual books from an actual Library most of
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which were horrifyingly out of date because yay school funding and don't
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even get me started on pens I mean between the backspace button and
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Wikipedia which may not be perfect but it's a great starting point the new
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generation's only excuse for being uninformed is pure
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laziness which leads us pretty well into number five when I was already snuggled
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up in bed in the winter and I wanted to turn off the lights I had to get off my
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butt and turn off a light switch or if I was one of the cool kids I might have
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had a Clapper just don't install those things too close to each other hey by
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contrast there is an entire generation of people for whom not being able to
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control lights with a phone or a smartwatch is going to be completely
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Unthinkable number six communication was
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a completely different animal thank you cards were written by hand I'm pretty
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sure my son has grandma on Facebook and for voice communication you actually had
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to remember your friend's number or look it up in the phone book everyone just
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doesn't understand me you know and even then privacy was never a guarantee like
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if if they would just listen then they would they would understand me better
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you know just a sec hey is someone
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listening this this is
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awesome seven is one thing that may have actually seemed better at the time
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coming home after school there was pretty much no way for my parents to
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know if I was actually practicing with piano or not but from a parents
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perspective being able to check in on the home and see if workbooks are
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actually being completed is a pretty big Boon number eight music playback has
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definitely improved CDs brought improved audio quality and easy track skipping
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but even that improvement over cassette tape sucks compared to subscription
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music services that cost the same as a handful of albums per year would have
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especially when you factor in that most of the songs weren't even things that
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you'd like with that said though you could make the argument that the quality
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of the music itself hasn't changed
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