Computers were connected to walls, and its only use for the young student was as an easier alternative to the typewriter. This learning method forced absorption, with no flash drives to enable a bookmarked link following quick scan of a Wikipedia entry at any random Wi-Fi hotspot. Knowledge was learned from the pages of books or from parenting and educational instruction. Phones were sought out, if one needed to place a call from outside of the home. Before the I-Pod and wireless connectivity, man, woman, and child were resigned to being within earshot of a radio or television. More fortunate children, when the thrill of television programming has been quelled, now have personal computers, and gaming systems at their immediate disposal, without having the need to changes rooms.Ĭellular phones and this new “age of the text message” keep people especially children, more adept at assimilating the changing winds of technology, “connected”, more so than at any time in the history of human civilization. The television, once a shared activity centered upon the household set in the living room, has become a solo act, relegated to the bedroom. As an externality of an increased standard of living, children spend fewer hours with the family.
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