I grew up without the internet-it was the end of an era, what’s next?

I asked myself today, after a conversation with a friend — “In 30 years, how disconnected from that era’s young people am I going to feel?”

I’m probably one of the last generations that walked down the street to the neighbor’s house, knocked on the door, and asked is my friend could come out and play- all the way up to when I was 12. I couldn’t instant message them, or facebook message them, or text them, or call them on their cell phone (I maybe could have emailed them but I wouldn’t have hung out with the kid that had email in 1996).

I’m probably the last generation that remembers my friend’s home phone numbers — and talking to their parents when they answered!

The kids who grew up with internet to the kids that didn’t. That’s what I’m talking about

Maybe 30 years from now we’ll be sitting around our ice chambers (cause they’ll help us live longer), talking about the kids growing up with virtual reality, or how they don’t know how to drive a car because their automated Uber drives them everywhere, and we’ll say to each other how f’ed they all are.

I will be that old curmudgeon — so I will definitely be thinking this way by then.

But I was part of the internet generation…before and after…that’s huge, right? Is it bigger than virtual reality and driverless cars???

Meeting with a friend of mine today, he’s 49 and he said “I have way more in common with a 30 year old, than I do with a 25 year old,” because the 30 year old didn’t grow up fully immersed in the internet.

How am I supposed to shake my fist at cars that cut me off if there isn’t a driver!