I glimpsed the future today. It took the form of muscular young men home from school flexing their muscles in our gym. Can't be too fit for the future, you know. Later, at a nine-year-old's birthday party, the future belonged to much younger kids running around and through the adults in the room.
One of the kids was manipulating a game on a flat screen TV. Another was scanning YouTube for something that might interest him. I don't think he found anything. Just scanning the world for the future.
As for the adults, we were talking about our new e-readers. Certainly a thrust into the future. A source of our concern (and here's where we show our age) the lack of printed instructions to help us use the devices. All the instructions are embedded in the software.
We like to look at a piece of paper and then follow the instructions thereon. We find it difficult to look at something on a screen and then try to perform the task. Young people don't seem to have any trouble at all with this.
I just keep hitting buttons or the touch screen until something happens. Sometimes it's what I want to happen, other times not. It's a challenge my wife would prefer to do without.
So while some brace for the future and others race to the future we just try to keep pace.
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