I often wonder of how our future will be with our relationship with the Internet and it’s minions driving fiercely forward from a mere casual to one…. something uber-serious!
I very clearly remember my first date with the Internet. It was a sunny summery day of the 90’s to remember. My dad was checking his emails and sipping away to glory his freshly grounded coffee made from the finest Arabica Coffee Beans that were handpicked from the most succulent coffee plants found in the high up altitudes of Costa Rica…(or wait, maybe it was tea, lipton…bought from the local supermarket 
)…but regardless, it was that Friday summer afternoon, when it suddenly dawned to my dad that I, his protégé, was ready and mature enough to take care of myself and venture off into THE virtual entity all by myself! Excited yet nervous about the decision, I picked up the courage and sat on that throne of a chair, sweaty palms and shaking thighs, I slowly moved the cursor over and double-clicked on the shiny blue icon, the Internet Explorer. It was a moment as if I had just surpassed the blinding white lights of the sky only to see that the doors of heaven had just opened up to me. That fine summers day was when this bond with the ever-so increasingly addictive Internet first started! Its been around 12 years now, we’re going stronger than ever!
Nowadays, the scene of getting introduced to the Internet is a little different. Its become something meaningless and completely ordinary. These days, even before a new-born baby gets the inevitable spank from the doctor:
#1 It has a Facebook account
#2 Has a picture of him/herself tagged and commented on!
Gone are those days when a newborn baby would either receive a gold or silver bracelet from his/her parents or cousins to welcome them into this world with luck. Instead, the biggest and most seismic gift the baby gets is the sacred password his lifelong Facebook and twitter account!
I strongly detest these means and solemnly swear to stick to means more traditions and gratifying in nature! When the little “Shah-Legacy Carriers” pop out, I’ll probably gift them something that’s more of a necessity than a luxury. Something logical and down-to-earth….something like, an iPhone.
I very much believe our generation, pro 1985, to be the one that’s a curve ahead than our parent’s generation in terms of adapting to technological advances. And to be honest, I don’t think the generation that will follow us, primarily our kids, will be able to outdo us in this respect either. Oh sure, holograms may become part of our daily lives, we’ll be flying in cars and all kids by law be will required to have mohawks…but seriously, we’ll adjust to it just as quick as we did with the arrival iPhones and beta versions of the X-Box Natal!
To give you an accurate idea of how our generation will never be outdone in terms of technological advances, here’s an image that just naturally played over in my head this very instance:
You know how quite a few of our parents are just starting to use things like Facebook, whereas we’re already established and esteemed gods and goddesses on the site…say in the near future, our son and his female-counterpart come back home from their very first day at kindergarten… and they’re all excited and pouncing on us to preach about what they learnt in school. They start, “Today we learnt about this really cool site called Facebook where” (we stop them right there…and we continue) ….”where u can make your own profile and stay connected with friends! YA YA…been there, done that. I have been a member on Facebook for the past 15 years and am deemed as great as Zeus himself there. Now tell me, WHOSE YOUR DADDY ??
SEE!! This is exactly what I’m taking about! The timing of our generation cannot be better! We’re an integral part of it all!
(Maybe I wont think the same way say…15 years from now, but oh well! I’m quite well justified for now! )
The only way the upcoming Generation Next will be able to outdo us, is if they start speaking like this:
For the time being, I’ll just hold on to my guns and best pray that I don’t see this day !!
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