Earlier this week I "tweeted" the observation that me and my family were " Techno Zombies". Several days this past week, I raised my head from my own game of Free Cell on my cellphone only to realize that the entire family was in the living room; Husband was watching videos on his cell phone, 14 year old was sitting on the couch with the laptop in his lap and watching "game play" , 18 year old was playing games on his cell phone in between texts. BOTH TV's were on; one of which was playing to an empty room.
Remember when TV went off at midnight and didn't come back on until 5 or 6 a.m.? Remember when cartoons were only on Saturday mornings? Remember when news was at 5p.m. and 10 p.m. and if you missed it you could read the newspaper? Remember actual newspapers? Newspaper boys who came to your house collecting this week's money? When phones had cords and were attached to walls? When the games kids played were cowboys and Indians, hide and seek, pinball, baseball, or hula hoop? Remember when the sprinkler in the front yard was the "water park" and hopefully someone had a slip-n-slide?
Today kids have 24/7/365 cartoons, adults have access to world news on CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN,FoxNews.All but gone are the real "killed-a field-of-trees-to-make-this" newspapers...now you can "read" the newspaper on your desktop, laptop, Kindle, or IPad. Cell phones are now "smart". Today we text each other (sometimes from under the same roof). We use Emails instead of "snail mail" so successfully that we've bankrupted the postal service! You can send Emails from your smart phone--there's an "app for that". Wanna play solitaire? Texas Holdem? There's an app for that. Don't want to wait for next week's EP of Dexter? There's an app for that! Don't know how to tie a tie? There is even an app for that!
I suspect that the world will indeed come to an end. But it won't be a massive solar flare, Yellow Stone blowing it's top or California dropping into the ocean like Atlantis. The world when come to an end by means of a zombie apocalypse. There will be survivors, rest assured. These survivors will go forth in the post apocalyptic world and forge a new world. They will tell generations of a time when millions of people once roamed this earth. They will tuck their children in bed safely at night and remind them to be good for goodness sake lest they end up like the others. They will write novels about a culture of people was wiped from the face of the earth because they did not hear the danger schlepping to their fronts doors, didn't see the danger as it entered their homes----they will tell of people, like my family, who were eaten by the Zombies!
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