So last night around 1 in the morning (last night? in the morning? make up your fucking mind right?) I got back from a weekend trip to visit my Second Cousin Brian P. Carr for a super bowl Sunday extravaganza. It was a good trip aside from the horrifying snow storm I drove through to get there on Friday. But I digress, I'm sure all of you are on the edge of your seats to hear my first prediction of the Paper Work series. So I'm sitting here (obviously since I have home field advantage I'm not going to hover) and I started thinking about how much people my age, and the generation below me, are texting. This caused me to consider the future, if continuing at the same rate we are going now. So allow me to toss out my perdiction:
In the future people will only text. Cell Phones will become so common and so quick that no one will talk we will only text each other.
things to consider because of this change: movies will revert back to text style dialogue like in 20s silent films. Accents won't exist anymore. The term voice box won't mean something in your throat but rather the term used to identify your cell phone....think about it...
Question: Can you put a time frame on "future"? Will this happen in 20 years? In 150 years? Will this happen tomorrow? I just need to know if I should stop paying attention to American Idol now.
ReplyDeleteI would like to say I disagree. As a future English teacher of those ridiculous kids I know that teenagers are completely enthralled by technology but I can also say that they love the sound of their voice way to much. Though that has more to do with a specific type of person rather than associated to one’s age.
ReplyDeletePlus this would discredit music and music has become such an intense part of a teenager's angst-y life I feel like it would be impossible for such thing. Just playing devil's advocate here.
Alan: No
ReplyDeleteFrieda: music will just become completely instrumental so they get the same angst without all that "mouth noise" as they will call it
I worry about this all the time...I don't have texting but people are constantly just assuming I do...even older people! Five years ago people did not make that assumtion...it was a luxury to have texting. Not anymore I guess.
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