Video Thursday - Evolution in Technology

Good thursday everyone... Its thursday once again and its video time... I've been mulling about buying a new gear hopefully in the next two weeks and I'm just anxious in getting it. Although I am decided already, I am still "researching" (googling, youtubing) the pluses (gear acquisition syndrome) and the minuses (actually the minus is just how expensive it is).

while trolling the pluses, I come across this video of kids ogling about the walkman. I have seen most of them as young as 2 years old knowing how to operate an iPad and yet could not fathom what a walkman is.

This brings me back to technology. How its evolution has been getting faster and faster in every turn. In the video, they haven't even seen a cassette. they will not know the relation of this....

with this....

as the joke goes, if you know the relation of the above, you've had a great childhood.

Going back to my anxiety, it made me think about my dad's old minolta film camera. I don't know how I came across it, all I know was that I asked my dad to have it fixed. It had fungus on it big time and I had fun shooting with it after it was refurbished. Fun in the sense that I had no idea how to use it and the time learning to use it was.

With my sights on a new gear, I would wonder if this feeling would transcend to my grand kids. If I could keep my D800 now and say, my grand kids would find it in say, after 20 years. would they react like, what? 36 megapixels? why so small? I couldn't make a print as big as the milky way with it!!!! I couldn't upload it to planet book (the future Facebook) with that level of resolution....

To have a glimpse of that future, maybe this video won't be far fetched. Click here for the video.