Digital grandma
Oct 27th, 2008 by Emily
Last night I had the pleasure of hanging out with my family. I often joke about how I would gladly quit my job to hang out with my family, but Matt apparently doesn’t think the joke is so funny.
My mom, dad, Mama and I headed to a fairly new little Italian restaurant near my old digs. We all enjoyed the nice, quiet dinner and conversation and couldn’t pass up the dessert menu. None of us could remember what panna cotta was, so I pulled out the trusty iPhone and looked it up.
Mama, sitting next to me, remarked about the world today and the technology we literally have at our fingertips.
While I consider myself as up-to-date on technology as the typical person on the street, I am reminded that I fall very short when discussing the coolest websites with my 14-year-old (going on 20-year-old) cousin. This all leads me to wondering what I’ll be like in my older years when I’m trying to connect my iPhone 20G to my Back to the Future 2 microwave thing to cook dinner.
Maybe it would go something like this:
Did you ask chacha? That’s our new favorite. You may not need to since you’ve got the world at your iPhone fingertips, but some of us still ask … and chacha is a fun way to ask.