Kids today, huh? I know, right? They have everything and it’s spoiled them silly. They can’t do research or fix anything. They can’t learn right and expect everything to be handed to them on a platter.

Why in my day…

Shut the fuck up.

Technology is curved. Shit has been getting easier and every generation since the very first have played a round of “in my day.”

“Fuck, Bob, in my day we didn’t HAVE legs and couldn’t breathe air.”

Yeah, we get it. Your grandparents didn’t have the ease of access to cars their kids did, letting them travel so far and wide. Distance didn’t mean as much. Community was going to erode.

And your parents, shit they didn’t have TV the way you did. Holy shit! That will destroy all sense of community! It will raise kids automatically and ruin them forever.

Now your kids have the internet as kids. This will destroy community forever. They will learn to expect information to be handed to them and…

This is not new. It has never been new. It is, in fact, so old it is fucking stupid. Yes, every generation loses some information tat might have seemed necessary to the one before it. Things get easier and so on. But they also gain new things. Think of how much better you can sort massive amounts of data than your parents or grandparents generally can. Think of how you manage multiple data streams. I mean shit.

Everyone loses.

Everyone gains.

That’s the way it works. We lose the ability to breathe underwater one day. We gained the ability to breathe air. Well, not like it was a switch but you see what I mean.

And this isn’t saying everything is for the better but come on.

A friend has a kid who didn’t want to do research for a paper. Expected Google to hand him everything, to the point of not wanting to go through the links and comb for data. Well, shitfuck, ok that can get old for me, too, some nights. But that isn’t the point.

The point is that in my day you went to libraries but some kids just wanted to look it up in an encyclopedia and be done. They wanted it handed to them from the broadest source they had. Or they only wanted to go to one library not two.

And so it goes.

The idea, the feelings, don’t change at all. The external shapes do. Mistaking one for the other doesn’t help.

So yeah. Those damn kids today. Evolving. Finding new problems as they use things in intuitive ways we don’t instantly see, just as did with tech our parents gave us way early. How dare they?