by June T. Bassemir
Company from out of state
came this past week end. We hadn’t seen
them in twenty years. The coats were
hung in the hall closet and immediately the 50 year old said he wanted to show
us something. Out he whipped the IPAD...a
truly remarkable technology tool. He
clued us in on the family tree – then searched my walls for pictures of
relatives long gone, to fill in the gaps of the tree he had on the IPAD. From there he showed us something “really
new... it will blow your mind." And it
did!
There is now technology that
will print in 3D and he used the IPAD to show us the advertising video of the
company in NYC that does it! All three
days of the visit, the 8” x 9” [?]
screen was in constant use. There was
little conversation exchanged...even when another part of the family came to
visit.
As soon as my son and family
came through the front door they were immediately whisked away to see the IPAD in
action. It was on the floor for all to
view what it could do. No one asked how
the intervening years were spent or what was going on in their lives now. From the floor the “screen” came up to the
table and was a camera speaking to another IPAD back home. The caretaker in Florida put the mother in front of their IPAD. She is in the throes of Alzheimer’s and was not
making sense. The husband and son at my
table were keen to have us witness the confusion of the poor woman. UGH! This is entertainment?
The IPAD may be yet another
“friend” that has entered the home, but it has taken over in the life of this
visiting cousin and was even in evidence - placed as it was on the console of
the car - when they drove away. I guess
at that point it was a GPS.
It’s not hard to imagine the
time when everyone will have an IPAD.
The instruments will talk to each other and there will be no face to
face conversation. Yes, I have seen the future and it ain’t pretty!
copyright 2013 by June Tuthill Bassemir
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