Bridge over pixeled water.

Justin,
Although your generation……which one is it? Gen Y? Gen Z?
Has certainly embraced technology, it has been done more as evolution than innovation.

The Baby Boomer generation more times than not is considered the 60’s Revolution generation….. And there were a great number of important social changes that took place during the 60‘s…. But more recently I have been thinking that maybe we should be thought of as the Digital Generation….

Using myself as an example (ahem!) - so please excuse the immodesty!

I had several PC’s before the term was even adopted…. In fact my good friend Rick Smets invented the desktop computer years before the Woz. Of course they had minimal power and capabilities…and programs were loaded via cassette tapes…but still….

Was on-line about 10 years before the availability of the Internet. (4kbs Wow!!!) Of course you had to dial up (expensive long distance) each site separately back then…….and yet…

Had one of the first wireless phones… though it was the size of a brick.

Had one of the second cell phones which though not shoebox size- was also about the size of a brick…..I think I had a 60 minute plan….however…

Had an MP3 player in the early 90’s…..maybe you could fit an album on it….of course….

Had to have something to tape TV shows with…..black market Beta then VHS deck…..blank tapes cost $25 each…..(back then!)

How about the CD player…when there were almost no CD’s for it to play……but oh boy…….

Digital camera- low quality, small capacity…. I could go on but…

The ability to be the first to enjoy……almost by definition, means you were also the last to experience those things that got replaced. So I really think my generation will be known as the Generation that bridged the analog and digital worlds.

Again- using myself with all modesty as an example….

When I was a kid (and I am not THAT old!) we didn’t even have a phone in the house… and hey I lived in NYC! (Alright Queens NY, but the City none the less.) When I was 8 we got a corded, rotary dial, bakelite phone.

78 rpm ‘mono’ records (ceramic) were how we listened to music. About 11”s round, one song on each side.

TV was Black and White (I think a 17 inch was as big as you could get) and we had 6 channels. The channel dial went up to 13.

Typewriters were not yet electric.

Eventually Polaroid would come out with a camera that developed B&W pictures (semi manually- you had to stop the development process with an included chemical treated sponge.) in a minute!

Hey- you get the picture.