tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post4244661935788179465..comments2024-02-23T04:39:49.329-05:00Comments on Conversations in Klal: On Elderly CrotchetsProfKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17954446826821665314noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-71358652550450783842011-01-26T14:01:32.772-05:002011-01-26T14:01:32.772-05:00JS, one of the things that keeps me going is my ce...JS, one of the things that keeps me going is my certainty that my kids will have just as much trouble adjusting as they age as I do.tesyaanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-2466582211388484692011-01-26T10:55:27.808-05:002011-01-26T10:55:27.808-05:00You raise a lot of good points.
Phones and televi...You raise a lot of good points.<br /><br />Phones and televisions are completely different then they were even a scant 5-10 years ago. Simply trying to turn on a TV nowadays can involve turning on, in the proper order, 3 or more devices. Even the universal remotes which are supposed to allow you turn things on with one button become instantly complicated if the remote is not properly pointed at each device that needs to be turned on. For example, my FIOS service requires the set tob box to be turned on concurrently with the TV - if you press the universal on button, but the signal didn't make it to the set top box, you're left with a message telling you to turn on the set top box. But, don't press that on button again! If you do that you'll turn on the set top box but turn off the TV! You have to change the remote to set top box mode and press the on button or the menu button. And forget about it if you have the sound wired through a surround sound system with a receiver or have a separate DVR or a Netflix-enabled device, DVD, Blu-Ray, etc.<br /><br />Or, on most modern phones, picking it up doesn't really pink it up in the sense of answering the phone. You have to press the talk button. Likewise, hanging up by putting the phone back on the receiver doesn't hang up anymore!<br /><br />These small, but myriad changes can make things incredibly complicated - even for someone who is technologically "with it!"<br /><br />My parents redid their kitchen and just figuring out how to turn on the oven or run the dishwasher is a real challenge.<br /><br />All this makes me wonder if it's generational in the sense that there was a tremendous technological revolution in the last, say, 20 or so years and that people born afterward have an intuitive ability to understand technological advances whereas those born beforehand have more difficulty. Or, to put it another way, will those born today have the same difficulties at age 70 as those that are currently aged 70 or will they be able to adapt better?JSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-73306467554745565322011-01-26T09:33:38.565-05:002011-01-26T09:33:38.565-05:00My aunt told her daughter-in-law that she (my aunt...My aunt told her daughter-in-law that she (my aunt) knew what it felt like to be 40, but her daughter-in-law didn't know what it felt like to be 60. It was very eye-opening to hear that, and since then I've tried to keep extra sympathy for people older than me.tesyaanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2096776708897685863.post-57596316058581354412011-01-26T09:16:51.526-05:002011-01-26T09:16:51.526-05:00Should hear my grandfather when he gets started on...Should hear my grandfather when he gets started on all the new technology. He's not unhappy that we have things like a stove that can be set for shabbos mode but he gets a lot more then crotchety when he has to set that stove and then change it back. Never mind how he feels about telephones today. He keeps pointing to his fingers and then to the small size of the buttons and wants to know what idiot coudn't measure a fingertip to get the right size button.Louisnoreply@blogger.com