a prediction

as everybody in our spoiled-rotten first-world country knows, we are in the middle of a huge technology boom. those who can afford these shiny new toys are doing absurd things like talking to someone in europe whom they have nothing to say to, while writing to someone in texas who they have nothing to say to, while pretending to drive a car, while driving a car, while listening to music from the seventies on a music player the size of a cracker, while *making delicious new lunches in under two minutes!*. this hilarious age of multi-tasking and tech-consumerism probably started because of the (ooh!) new millennium; everyone wanted to stop writing about legless robot maids and start making them.
however, i don't think that this stuff is going to last very long.
you see, there are two groups of people who rely on this new technology: frazzled grown-ups who are
a) oober-excited about it, and/or
b) think that it makes their already crazy lives easier.
then there is my generation-the quote unquote "txt generation", who are unimpressed but use the stuff anyway, out of boredom. i think that once the older generation (the ones who think they need this junk) die off, and the younger generation get more mature, the flashy metal wonders will be put away to collect dust. sure, we'll still have things like the internet and cell phones (because we have rapidly re-designed our lives to rely on those things), but we won't still buy the latest "smart" phone to impress our friends. at least, that's what i *hope*.