Modern Inventions and your parents or grandparents thoughts

[hollydolly]

I was just thinking the other day, how tickled or even astonished that my mother who died in '73 would be to know she could sit at home, order her groceries online and a man ( usually a man) unknown to her would deliver them right to her door...

grocery shopping was the Bane of her life , buying for 6, and she didn't drive.. so if someone told her all those years ago there would come a day when she would never have to shop for herself again.. she would have thought all her Christmases had come at once.. ..I wish she'd lived to experience it..

What do you enjoy today that your parents or grandparents would have been amazed by... ?

 

[Della]

My father loved technology, he was the first person to tell me about the "world wide web" that was coming up way back in the 80's. He died just before everyone had a personal computer and I know he would have loved having so much information at his finger tips. My mother would have loved things like the online eagle cams I watch, seeing the babies hatch and then fledge.

 

[hollydolly]

My paternal grandmother was a lover of popular music, and would entertain her friends on their coach journeys by singing , and playing the harmonica... She loved to learn the latest chart hits lyrics off by heart...

She would have adored Youtube.... it would have brought her joy and fun...

 

[CinnamonSugar]

GPS for sure! I can’t imagine even trying to navigate to see patients in unfamiliar areas (as I’ve done the last few years) without it.

if I could meet the person who came up / perfected the technology, I’d kiss their feet!!

 

[Alligatorob]

My mother was an avid reader, and had a degree in English literature. She died just as the e-readers were coming out, she never had one.

I think she would really have liked a Kindle or similar. Sorry she never had the chance.

 

[hollydolly]

My mother was an avid reader, and had a degree in English literature. She died just as the e-readers were coming out, she never had one.

I think she would really have liked a Kindle or similar. Sorry she never had the chance.

My mother had little education much to her regret , she was an avid reader and always reading encyclopedias. and medical books.... and as a nurse she would have loved to have had all the information right here at the touch of a key...on the Internet

 

[Pink Biz]

My mother was an avid reader, and had a degree in English literature. She died just as the e-readers were coming out, she never had one.

I think she would really have liked a Kindle or similar. Sorry she never had the chance.

My mother had little education much to her regret , she was an avid reader and always reading encyclopedias. and medical books.... and as a nurse she would have loved to have had all the information right here at the touch of a key...on the Internet

Same with my mom. She read anything and everything she could get her hands on. She had wanted to be a nurse so she read a lot of medical things, too!

 

[Fyrefox]

My parents kind of bypassed or defeated the purpose of modern technology that they lived to see. My mother bought a microwave back when they first came out, and were quite expensive. She popped microwave popcorn in it a time or two, then used the microwave as a breadbox for food storage! My parents likewise bought a VHS video recorder back in those days; no matter how many times I explained it’s operation (even writing a step-by-step procedure down), they never got the knack of it….

 

[CarolfromTX]

Don’t know about my parents, but personally Google maps amazes me. And relieves me of the tiresome duty of staring at a paper map on road trips.

On a related note, we still keep a map of Texas in the car. I was taking my granddaughter somewhere and she noticed it in the pocket on the door. “Why do you even have a paper map?!” she asked, as though it was something out of the Dark Ages. I told her, “Sometimes in life you need to see the big picture.” Not sure if she understood the larger meaning.

 

[Pinky]

My father would have loved YouTube and online Jigsaw puzzles. Mother would have loved to visit Japan virtually.

Late father-in-law would have loved all the information he could access online. Late mother-in-law would have enjoyed an e-reader.

 

[Lewkat]

Both of my parents loved the coming of the space age. They were avid fans of Buck Rogers and the 20th Century when they were first married and never missed a program. When we landed on the moon, my dad had tears streaming down his cheeks. The ISS and subsequent satellite systems would have thrilled him.

 

[JaniceM]

Neither ever saw a computer- I think they would have been puzzled by the entire subject.
Neither ever saw a cell phone- my father would have appreciated it as an emergency communication device when he was out driving.

 

[Remy]

I don't know about the grandparents but several times I've thought about the 80's when I was young. We lived fine but who would have thought all the changes with the internet were in the future?

 

[chic]

My Dad died years before the internet which is a shame. He used what technology was available in his work but would have loved GPS and booking vacations and organizing trips online. Mom loves to read, but she like libraries and books. I've tried to teach her how to order things online and she can do it with lots of help, but otherwise she is not interested. She'll be 90 soon so I cut her a lot of slack.