Hello Fellow Technophiles,
As a father of a precocious 3.5 year old, I find myself explaining anything and everything on a daily basis. This gets me thinking more critically about the grammar and the content of the things I say. For example, I realized recently that my kids will likely never actually “dial” a phone even though I still call it dialing. They can input a number, or more likely just tap on someone’s name, but there is no physical dial. Not that those were common even in my day as touch-tone telephone service was first offered in 1963. They will also likely never “tune in” to a TV show with an actual tuner. Again, not something I did often either as cable TV was introduced in 1949 and into my house circa 1984. These linguistic quirks will probably hang on for some time after no one is left who actually used these technologies in their original forms.
That all being said, I am not nostalgic for the older technology. I can’t imagine going without a cellular telephone. Then, when you consider all of the apps, internet connectivity, built-in camera and microphone, and geo-location services on my iPhone it is truly an amazing and indispensable device (which Apple and I still refer to as a phone). I also do not miss having to watch TV shows when they were aired. I can get almost every show I want between all of the streaming services out there. And thanks to a $4 add on to my Hulu subscription and the AdBlock Plus Safari extension I don’t even have to watch commercials anymore. We have a great deal on an Apple TV below, so if you are still tuning in, you should take a look at it and leap into the future.
I hope you enjoy this “newsletter” that I “typed” and e-“mailed” to you!