When I was a little kid, my parents could often be heard throughout the house giving me words of wisdom. You know, the kind of stuff that would make me a productive adult one day. Stuff like "Get away from the T.V. and go play outside already!" Obviously my parents were concerned about the amount of time their children spent in front of the television or computer (of course they didn't realize at the time that I would one day be working for a website developer).
Nowadays it seems like children are playing outside less and adults have little room to complain (unless they don't mind being hypocritical). There is a park near my house that I drive by almost every day, and I never even realized it because until we recently had some favorable weather, I'd never seen a soul out there.
What concerns me here isn't that one local park isn't faring well, but an overall trend that has become more prevalent in the wake of the communications age. I drive by kids walking home from school talking on their cell phones, I read reports being sent on children's demographics for web surfing, and I can't help but notice the immense change that has taken place in just over a decade. Now instead of children being scolded by their parents for "twittering" their days away, we have examples of members of Congress using the webservice by the same name during sessions!
The point of this blog is to show that there is an ever changing landscape in technology. Things changed more in the last 50 years than in any other time in history, and so it isn't uncommon for a child and a parent to experience an entirely different type of childhood. Keep that in mind as you try to envision the world of tomorrow, and how you might be a part of it.