Back to the future

Do kids in school still read the Weekly Reader?  Technology has moved us in such unexpected directions, I am amazed.

When I was a kid, futurists (we just called them day-dreamers then) thought we would be zooming around with jet packs on our backs for transportation by the year 2000.  That year in itself was laughable to me as a child.  Who could think about attaining the age you would be THEN!  Gracious!

But between computerization, and miniaturization we have a phone, a theater, a "stereo", and a camera plus lots more I don't keep up with----all in the palm of our hand.  We used to covet Dick Tracy's two way wrist radio!

My dad died young in the mid-seventies, but I often think that he'd get a bang out of our technology.  He'd turn his cell phone off just like I do, though. 

There's a lot to be said for silence.