A New Way to Embarrass the Kids
When I was little, parents (mine included) would tote around a gigantic video camera and make home movies of us kids playing. My younger sisters, the twins, were the cutest and therefore most often the victims of this practice. Every so often at holidays, the parents will still pull out these beat-up, poorly filmed old videos, embarrassing all of us (especially the twins).
Times have changed. My friends are all having children now and instead of keeping videotapes nearby, they’re storing video on their terabyte drives and posting video clips on their blogs. In this video, my friend Jason – a tech-savvy and influential author and librarian, gives a videocast update on his baby daughter and posts it to his widely read blog.
What are our kids going to say in 20 years when we attempt to hook up our antiquated USB drives to their newfangled computers, just to show baby videos from the early part of the century?
I know, this has nothing to do with learning, technical writing, or instructional design. But it does drive home the point that the world is changing drastically, and fast. Looking at change 20 years in either direction is now exhausting – there is so much happening and I’m thrilled to be a part of it.
