Interesting piece from Kirk Douglas, aged 96 – observing technological changes:
The first thing you come up against is technology. One night we took our grandchildren out for dinner. I looked around the table. Jason, the youngest, was playing games with his cellphone; Ryan, 12 years old, had his head under the table and I assumed he was watching his cellphone; Tyler, 16, and his sister Kelsey, 18, were both involved on their cellphones too. Lisa, their mother, was frantically searching in her purse for her ringing cellphone; and Peter, their father, was leaning back, laughing loudly, on his cellphone. I looked across the table at my wife. We both shrugged.
Outside is worse. People walking down the streets, holding objects against their ears, either listening or talking. When they’re speaking it looks like they’re just crazy people talking to themselves. They cross the road without looking, still talking, and people driving their cars are doing the same thing. Is what they’re saying really that important
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