Scared of the next generation?

I sat here thinking for a few minutes and it's just sad what the next generation is coming to. I saw a 5 year old playing on a ipad yesterday. I mean that's not bad but think about it for a second. When I was that age I was using this thing called imagination. 5th graders acting like there thugs looking for a "relationship". I look around seeing kids complaining that there iPhone 5s and $2000 room isn't enough. What do you think about this?

 

Imagine what a kid will be able to program on an iPad when he's 25 if he's been using it since he was 5. The ideas are endless, and Steve would certainly be happy with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3ponn_6Fac

But seriously, where would this kid have been even 1,000 years ago without technology? Struggling to survive, quite possibly dead due to lack of medicine, condemned to a life of ignorance, etc. Today, a 5 year old can start reading about basic quantum mechanics on Wikipedia. The landscape is indeed changing, ultimately for the better--it's the nature of economic progress: two steps forward, one step back.

 

Get over it. I hear the same argument all the time. You grew up in an age where technology wasn't so prominent/dominant. I bet millennials said the same thing about your generation. Advancement of child progression is something we should aim for. If you see a kid with an iPad and get frustrated, it's because you loathe not having such things growing up.

 

Never said I was frustrated... Just said it was a big change.....

 

As Ghast mentioned, they said the same thing about us.

 

Never said you were.

"I sat here thinking for a few minutes and it's just sad what the next generation is coming to."

 

Our world is currently advancing faster then ever and our hope relies on these next generation kids because they are the key for our future.

 

Access to technology is certainly not the worst thing you can see when you look at the new generation...

 

I completely understand where you're coming from. I mean, when I was in elementary school, I was outside playing and riding my bike. Nowadays kids are always inside on their technology and I fear that the world is becoming more and more antisocial slowly, and throughout time, the generations will become less physical and more lazy due to the amount of technology available.

 

Technology isn't the problem with this generation. It's laziness. So many people just don't have a work ethic anymore. So many people that do work, don't take pride in what they're doing. They half-ass everything. Common curteousy is nearly dead now a days also. In my opinion everything's just going down hill. But what can we do? Try to be the best person you can be and do positive things.

 

And for the 5 year olds who sit on their ass playing games all day on the I-Pads? I was reading books when I was 5 and playing the odd game on my computer (yes, I had my own PC when I was 5 :3). I doubt most 5 year olds are interested in quantum mechanics.

 

Yeah I'd agree with that. While technological advances bring a lot of good they also bring some bad in making people lazy since a lot of things are easier now. It's not really something that can be fixed though.

 

This just means that kids are adapting to a technology world, and that's not a bad thing. Although it was kind of weird when I saw a 5 year old yesterday taking SELFIES <.<

 

I do believe that, although technology has made many things possible that never would've been, that it will be overall detrimental to human life.

People aren't social any more; if you talk to someone on a train they look at you like you're a weirdo, because you just don't do that. Hundreds of people in the same space, but not, endlessly browsing the web.

People are too caught up in what X, Y or Z celebrity is doing, criticising, commending, being jealous of, appreciating, enjoying someone else's life like they could never have that.. and they could.

Kids aren't as appreciative, and they're maturing far too quickly. They know what everything is at a much, much earlier age and you can only blame the parenting for so much. It's impossible to shield your child from anything these days; they'll find it out with or without their own gadgets.

If everything becomes automated, we get lazier, we get unhealthier, we get less social, we become less human. Staring at phones is bad for your eyes, bad for your posture, bad for your sociability (the amount of kids with social problems these days, who can't talk in front of people properly, who don't know how to socialise because they've been brought up on games and tablets).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of these doomsday hippies that thinks all tech is evil. I love me some electronics. And I can see the detrimental affects it has on me personally. Yes, it's all good and well for technological advancements, but there are a load of bad things that are happening and will get worse.

 

This is very well put. Spot on.

 

I grew up with Lego, k'nex and Meccano, Sega's Megadrive, Sony's Playstation and the N64.

It's the same old shit, just newer technology.

 

Just playing devil's advocate here, how does your quote here differ from the same basic principles of, say, the Amish?

 

Because I still use/do it rrgardless of the consequences lol. Anything in moderation, I spose.

 

I genuinely don't think this is the case or at least the people I'm surrounded with. It's frustrating to hear this generalization when myself and literally every other senior at my university is going off to jobs where we'll be working 80-100 hours like we did over the summer. Perhaps it's because other people aren't provided with the opportunity to work? The nature of a white collar job is certainly changing as well.

 

I was really hoping nobody took it that way, lol. I feel comfortable saying the greater majority of people are that way though. Not everybody of course. If the only people you see or are in contact with are like minded individuals at a university, then I can see how you may think my previous comment is far fetched.