Technology to us is normal

On page 20 Tapscott talks about a conversation he and his children’s were having about technology. His kids teamed up against him to say that adults care too much about technology and what it all means. They said a refrigerator is technology but we're not watching people raid their refrigerators like it's a big deal so why are other things so important. He says to us technology is like the air referring to his son looking at a picture of mars through Hubble Telescope thinking isn't Mars so cool as he himself was thinking wow my son is accessing all this right in his bedroom with technology. I think this shows a good point that to us it is just natural to have all these technological things like cell phones with internet access. As many people have said our parents are terrible with computers or texting and are fascinated that we can do it. To us it's like come on all I'm doing is typing of my phone just like you do on a computer it's not difficult what’s the big deal? This makes me think about the statement about kids getting along with their parents. I agree with the previous post that majority of kids aren't getting along well with their families. If anything the technology is making us more in our own world and better able to tune our families out of our life. I found a blog post by someone talking about the generation gap between children and their parents. They don’t even refer to technology being the reason but more so parents being so busy and consumed by their own world. This made me think maybe that’s why we become so consumed with technology at such a young age before it’s even being required in school. It’s like all these technological advances are our escapes to our own world.

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