We’re a bit all over the board this week, but most of it boils down to the future and the differences our kids generation faces.
We’ve seen plenty of changes in our lives and what our kids face is vastly different. The tech, which we love, is enabling them to make different choices and lead different lives.
Transcript
Episode 35 Our Kids Future
[Intro] – Do you like conversation on a variety of topics? Feel like no one wants to talk about the things that interest you? Tired of only hearing the same political, sports, or catastrophe talk? Yeah, we feel that way too. Join to high functioning games as I discuss just about anything under the sun. You can’t tell you what we’ll be talking about each week because I you know where our brains will take us. It will be an interesting conversation though. So hang on and join us, here comes the Relentless Geekery.
[Stephen] – So, how are you?
[Alan] – I’m doing fine as a matter of fact. You know, it’s kind of fun. You know, I really am not minding all the COVID shut down because it’s released having me focus on things that have needed to get done for a long time like going to the vaults, like decluttering the house, like going through my email clients and creating new rules for things that, it’s kind of funny people places just don’t seem to standardize on how to send you an email, they have all kinds of different email addresses and if you do that on the bad basis or on the basis of subject or whatever, it’s amazing how many rules I have to have in place that just capture all the things from mailing list or all those things from a bank or something like that and and if you don’t update your rules regularly all that accumulates, so part of my end of year start of New Year is always, okay I want this to be filed away where I want to see everything from Amazon I’ll find it all in one place instead of having to like go looking through my inbox and try to remember pseudo chronologically when did this happen and so anyway, and then you find out that occasionally you wrote a rule it was too aggressive and you were in a folder that you put things into and it’s like what’s all this other stuff doing here? Oh because you know and it’s got this all character strings and all you have to do is just do one weird typos or something like that and anyway, its petty but not if you run your life. So I don’t run my life off of email like I might once have nowadays a lot of it seems to be instant messaging, texting, Facebook, all that kind of stuff but a lot of important stuff like when’s the billing due and official notices and stuff it all comes via email as opposed to physical mail, and you don’t want to miss those things.
[Stephen] – And first of all It is kind of crazy to think that we get official notification since and bills through email because fifteen to twenty years ago it was like, oh my God, you can’t send bills in email that’s just not not safe, it’s not, it’s unheard of and hey that gives us a lot of money it’s a lot quicker and people, you know, it’s just, I’ve been noticing a lot we have a lot of preconceived notions we live with that it takes some work sometimes to break. A great example, my mother, she’s seventy she has in the hall a little light that is a night-light essentially an like an old Christmas bulb and she has it taped up to the wall.
[Alan] – Okay.
[Stephen] – So we were decorating and I put up some Modern Christmas lights, LEDs and they are way bright thousand and so I am plugged that old light and said screw it just use this for a night lig...
