Tech Savvy Boom

Who can teach tech these days, better than children? Kids are practically born with a wireless mouse in their hands. It starts in the early years with electronic educational games that teach kids their numbers and colors, periodic tablesand ,presidents....etc.

Next, the family PC replaces these "toys." By middle school, each child needs his or her own laptop. When kids hit the teen years it’s all about  iPads , tablets and smart phones complete with expensive data plans and unlimited texting.

If you were about my age you can see how communication habits have  changed as we get older. For example, children aged 12 to 15 are likely to spend just three percent of their time on voice calls, while the vast majority of their time  is spent on text-based communications or social networking.

Although adults are using digital text-based communications, they operate in a different way to the younger generation. Adults tend to like email , in marked contrast to the 12- to 15-year-olds who do.

Emailing or texting is also more popular than sleeping, apparently. The average adult now spends more time using media or communications than they do sleeping .

But if eight hours a day sounds reasonable, we are actually squeezing more into our day by multitasking on different devices. 

Not surprisingly there has been a change  from the desktop computer, which is being replaced by the tablet and the smartphone.  What would be our next step?